Secretly snapping pix up a woman's skirt A-OK in Georgia

Apparently it's now perfectly legal to sneak a camera or a video up a woman's skirt, as long as she is in a public place.

After a gentleman in Perry, Georgia was found guilty of "criminal invasion of privacy" for shooting "upskirt" videos of a woman in a grocery store, he appealed and won over a technical glitch. The Georgia Court of Appeals decided 6-3 that because of the wording of the law, upskirting in public was legal.

According to Georgia law, it's illegal for "[a]ny person, through the use of any device, without the consent of all persons observed, to observe, photograph or record the activities of another which occur in any private place and out of public view." But read the last part closely - the defendant acted in a public place, so the law didn't apply. And unfortunately, the appeals court agreed.

In other words, if you plan to point your camera up a woman's skirt, just make sure to do it on the street or in a public building and not in a private setting like a bathroom stall. Lawmakers do plan to change the wording of the law to make crotch shot photography (without permission) illegal anywhere in the Peach State, but that won't be until next spring. Read the full story here.

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