WOTY -- "upskirting"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Mar 6 00:53:09 UTC 2014


Which the highest state court in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court -- the oldest continuously functioning
appellate court in America -- has just ruled is not illegal.  The
activity as well as the word should go viral.

The decision is that "a state law intended to prohibit 'Peeping Tom'
voyeurism of completely or partially undressed people did not apply
to people who take pictures of people who are fully
clothed."  (Boston Globe, on-line.)

It's not clear to me whether the prosecutors blundered in choosing to
bring charges under the "Peeing Tom" law when there might have been
some other grounds.

Not in the OED, by the way.

Joel

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