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No more peeping
The bill, which President Bush is expected to sign, would make it a crime to videotape or photograph the naked or underwear-covered private parts of a person without consent when the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Conviction could lead to a fine of not more than $100,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
Although the bill limits the jurisdiction to federal property, that doesn't mean it won't be used.
Navy officials in the past few years have twice found small cameras hidden in women's rooms on ships heading out of Norfolk, Va.
Australian police in November arrested a man for using his camera phone to take pictures of topless women sunning themselves on a Sydney beach. (Who was in Australia recently?) The phone was ordered destroyed and the man was fined 500 Australian dollars ($388 U.S.) after pleading guilty.
"While it's a personal choice for female sunbathers to sunbake topless at a beach, this type of incident is clearly an invasion of one's privacy," a police spokesman said.
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