If Congress treated video voyeurism as they did spam... [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] Congress takes firm stand against "video 
voyeurism!" [priv]
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:43:55 -0400
From: Al Donaldson <al () escom com>
To: declan () well com

Declan,

If Congress were consistent, and if they had treated "Video Voyeurism"
the same way they reacted to the "Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography
and Marketing" back in '03, they would have:

1. Asserted the rights of US voyeurs to capture images of anyone's
   "naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or
   female breast", at least once;
2. Required US voyeurs to notify those unsuspecting persons whose
   images they've captured, and provide an opt-out address for
   subsequent intrusions;
3. Provided civil penalties for any US voyeur who fails to notify the
   subject, or subsequently captures an image of the subject after
   the subject has opted out;
4. Provided criminal penalties for anyone who drills more than 25 holes
   in ceilings, walls, floors, or other partitions during any month
   in order to capture such images.

I would then expect Senator Schumer to leap into the fray with an
amendment requiring the FTC to manage a "Do Not Capture Images of
My Naked or Undergarment Clad Genitals, Pubic Area, Buttocks, or
Female Breast List".

Al Donaldson

> Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2004 (Reported in House)
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.01301:


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