At 09:20 AM 9/15/2007, you wrote: ...................... check out a recent absurd Oregon
law that essentially precludes public photography:
The law may preclude your public photography but not mine. Maybe you meant pubic photography?
* Invasion of Personal Privacy, Or. Rev. Stat.163.700 * Class A Misdemeanor * Legislation extends protection against recording images of individuals' intimate body parts while individual is in the public view and/or clothed brad brace
That law is supposed to curtail activities of teenage boys or older perves who mount a tiny "spy camera" in their shoes and take pictures up girls' and women's skirts. The clothed wording forestalls the perps claim of no harm because most of the females are wearing panties. Many locales have similar laws for similar purposes. You may think it absurd but women of my acquaintance are creeped out thinking some one might be taking pictures of their crotch while they shop at the mall. If the usenet news groups are any measure there is a lot more of it going on than you might think.
Dave East Englewood -----------------------------
