Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Brave Wisconsin Man Helps Define Privacy Rights

Ah, Wisconsin.  I've said it before, I'll say it again--The Florida of the Heartland.

A woman finds out her boyfriend is taping her while she is nude and when they are having sex.  She gets pissed.  She has him arrested.

The guy, Mark Jahnke, argues that being nude in his presence is an implicit agreement to be videotaped.  The AP's Scott Bauer summarizes the Wisconsin DoJ argument thusly:  "The state Department of Justice argued that shared intimacy does not give a person the right to film another unknowingly."

The Court ruled for the state today.  One would have thought that it went without saying that it is illegal to videotape someone having sex with you without their consent.  Thanks to brave heroes like Mark Jahnke, we now know it for certain.  Thank you, brave Wisconsinite!

2 comments:

Andrew Wice said...

Was she hot?

Lucy Rhode said...

Monkey isn't cute anymore. Monkey's been banished. http://www.lssu.edu/banished