Creepy...

[tanamiya.livejournal.com]

Well, I found your problem, sir. The reason Norton won't install on your hard drive is because you don't have enough hard disk space left. WinDirStat tells me that over 90% of the 250GB drive is taken up by your collection of photographs. Thankfully, the Privacy Act forbids me to figure out that they're pictures you've taken of random women who don't know you're taking pictures of them from the safety of your own car. Or from behind bushes. Or from around buildings.

It's unfortunate you can't get locked away for being a total creeper. Please find yourself a new hobby. =(

Comments

[monkeedreamer.livejournal.com]

That is ...highly disturbing. D: D:

[crywolf.livejournal.com]

If you work for a company, you might want to ask the legal department for their opinion.

[monkeedreamer.livejournal.com]

Except "the Privacy Act forbids me to figure out that..." OP isn't legally supposed to know they exist in the first place. =/

[kcbnac.livejournal.com]

Ah, but sometimes you "stumble upon" things. You're not supposed to go looking...but if you know, you're supposed to report it... (Was the policy at Best Buy with regards to CP, among other things. Thankfully I never ran across anything other than porn popups)

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

Now is the time for some intrepid trojan writer to create a little 'utility' that emails random jpgs to local law enforcement agencies with IP addresses and return email :-O

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

When my brother was a teenager he worked in a photo developing shop, and one time he developed some pictures of people shooting up. He asked his manager if this was something they had to report to the police. The manager said that the pictures alone were not proof of anything, because they could be staged (e.g. art photography).

I think you would run into the same problem here, because even though the most obvious and likely answer is that he's taking pictures of women without their permission, there are other possibilities and you don't have proof. He could even be a private detective or something, of the type that investigates unfaithful spouses -- sleazy, yes, but not illegal.

The only time you would be justified in reporting something you found is if it was something like child porn photos, where the production and possession of it are themselves harmful and illegal. (There's proposed legislation in Canada to make ISPs report all tips and information they get about suspected child porn sites.)

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

I was gonna try to write an intelligent response to this post, but you seem to have written it already.

[crm17.livejournal.com]

I am not an expert but looked into this a bit a while ago and I believe that you are allowed to capture images of people in public spaces. You would only be in legal trouble if you tried to publish the photos without permission of the subjects. (With the exception of "famous" people in public spaces, which you are allowed to use because of implied consent).

My best call like this was the gentleman who asked me to fix the sound issue with his porn videos.