The southern Chinese city is the latest jurisdiction to draw up laws specifically outlawing “upskirting” at a time when cameraphones have sparked an explosion of such images on the Internet. — Photo by mayu ken on Unsplash
HONG KONG: People who take non-consensual photographs up a woman’s skirt face up to five years in jail in Hong Kong under a law passed Thursday aimed at tackling voyeurism.
The southern Chinese city is the latest jurisdiction to draw up laws specifically outlawing “upskirting” at a time when cameraphones have sparked an explosion of such images on the Internet.
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