Lifetime's tale of video voyeur spurs U.S. law
President Bush has signed a video voyeurism bill into law three years after Lifetime Television depicted the problem of people who are secretly videotaped in private places in its original movie Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story and pushed for legislation that would make video voyeurism a federal crime. The new law, titled the Video Voyeurism Protection Act of 2004, makes it a federal crime to secretly capture images of people on federal property in situations in which they have the expectation of privacy. Lifetime called the bill an important first step in the effort to protect people from video voyeurism. The bill was signed into law late Thursday, just before the Christmas Eve holiday, Lifetime said. Any person found guilty of video voyeurism on federal property under the new law could be fined and/or imprisoned for up to one year.
- 12/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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