House OKs Ban on Video Voyeurism
Calling video voyeurism the new frontier of stalking, the House approved legislation to make it a crime to secretly photograph or videotape people.
Under the legislation passed by voice vote, video voyeurism on federal land would be punishable by a fine of not more than $100,000, imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said surreptitious videotaping had become “a huge privacy concern” with the miniaturization of technology and the proliferation of cellphone cameras.
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