South Korean women protest in Seoul over hidden sex cameras
Tens of thousands of women gathered in Seoul on Saturday calling for a crackdown on spy cam pornography, in one of the country's biggest ever female-only protests.
Perpetrators film or photograph women with hidden cameras in public spaces. Although distributing pornography is illegal in South Korea, the videos and pictures are shared widely online. Organisers say women live in constant fear of being photographed or filmed without their knowledge.
[...] Demonstrators said around 55,000 women took part, although police put the figure at around 20,000.
The recent protests began after police arrested a 25-year-old woman in May for secretly photographing a male colleague who posed nude for university art students. She then shared the picture online. Demonstrators believe police only acted so swiftly because it was a female perpetrator, and pointed to instances of police closing cases with female victims because they could not find the photographers or track them online, [or] because they posted on foreign servers. While the law mandates a maximum five-year prison term or 10 million won ($8,970; £6,770) fine for creating sexual images, and a maximum seven year sentence and 30 million won ($26,900; £20,200) fine for distributing them for profit, protesters say many receive far lighter punishments.
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South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.
The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.
The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.
Srsly?
Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @05:41PM (3 children)
Certainly not the fact that it was an identifiable person, in a very specific setting, with easily determined people in the audience. Hell, even the perspective the photo was taken from probably further helped narrow it down. I bet the perp didn't even scrub the metadata from the phone, and/or where they uploaded it could trace back the IP.
I bet the case started having no idea who took the image, never mind the gender of that person. But TFA and summary trip all over themselves asserting it was only swiftly handled because a woman was the perp - not because it was actually just simple to crack this case.
Not saying this isn't a problem, but someone has a chip on their shoulder and/or is trying to push a narrative.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 08 2018, @07:19PM (2 children)
Yeah - but, still sexism.
The reason she was caught so easily, is she has no experience at that sort of thing. No experience, because women just don't do that kind of thing.
Guys get away with it, because they do that sort of thing all the time. They know how to get around the law, how to avoid being prosecuted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @02:33AM (1 child)
That's why you protect women and veil them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 09 2018, @05:17AM
You forgot your sarcasm tag.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @05:49PM (11 children)
All Asians looks the same. Why should a women live in fear of being photographed when nobody can tell it's her.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 08 2018, @06:33PM (6 children)
ALL WOMEN look the same when it's very dark. And in the old days, maybe you went to a very crooked place, you asked for a certain woman, very nice looking, they sent another that was much worse. While the nice looking one stayed downstairs bringing in customers. You couldn't see the woman, couldn't see what you were doing, and the worst part, you couldn't see yourself. Your greatness, your glory. A big salute to whoever invented Light Bulb!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @06:57PM (1 child)
You don't know who invented the Light Bulb?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @09:28AM
http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/future/who-really-invented-light-bulb [sciencefocus.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @07:12PM (1 child)
Is your little head the same color as your big head?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @07:49PM
Orange all the way down. Wanna see?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 08 2018, @08:28PM
Even with the lights on you never know what you're kissing until its too late. Like that scene in Game of Thrones where the pimp hurriedly wiped the fresh jizzom from a whore's face before offering her to his client in the next room.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 09 2018, @01:33PM
You forgot to mention: "some of my best friends are Asian!"
Also, even with lights, remember to bring a magnifying glass. One with a handle suitable for tiny hands.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 08 2018, @08:26PM (2 children)
While this was modded "Troll," there is a legitimate technical basis [newsweek.com] for this argument, just as there is for facial-recognition technology's inability to identify Black faces.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @12:51AM (1 child)
That sounds suspiciously stupid.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 09 2018, @01:34PM
While one can be suspicious that someone is stupid, being stupid is not, by itself, suspicious.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Monday July 09 2018, @10:10AM
More like "All South Korean women look the same after their mandatory plastic surgery."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 08 2018, @08:48PM (4 children)
The last thing I'd expect hidden cameras to capture in public places is pornographic material.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 08 2018, @09:17PM
You'd be surprised by what some people call "pornographic material." Every so often, for example, you hear stories in American news media about how hidden cameras were found in the ventilation grates above bathroom stalls in big-box stores. Some fat woman had to pull down her granny-panties and take the nastiest floater shit that ended up clogging the bathroom. Somewhere else, there is a person who got ahold of that data and considers it "his finest work."
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday July 08 2018, @10:27PM
Where I think it changes is when you have hidden cameras in odd places, where a human eyeball is not expected and probably couldn't possibly be found, peeking up skirts and the like... that's a bit of a different thing.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 09 2018, @01:38PM
Maybe not what you consider to be pornographic material. But what the target audience considers pornographic.
Maybe you would not find pornographic a video of a herd of goats. But . . . . nevermind.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @06:16PM
Locker room/shower footage from public pools.