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"stop thinking that filming once body is serious crime."

Firstly, the article is not talking about taking pictures of women on the street but rather in changing rooms and locker rooms, which is a crime. Second, even if you would be comfortable if someone took a picture of you naked without your knowledge and posted it online doesn't mean that other women and men are.

"Is it ok for the same woman to appear in both these news?"

Yes. It was her decision to pose topless in public, and it doesn't give anyone the right to spy on her in privacy and take pictures of her.

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> changing rooms and locker rooms

But it is kind of public place too. What if you open it by mistake with google glass on? 5 years in prison? What if another woman there receives video call? 5 years in prison? What if some stupid child does it? What if hackers or sneaky woman intentionally put such shots on your phone and call police?

>if someone took a picture of you

I’m not comfortable with it too. But I don’t think it is more criminal than piracy. I don’t want that police restrict cameras anyway because of it. I want the police to protect copyright better

>It was her decision to pose topless in public

So the subject for protection is not her body itself but her power to define how to “sell” it? Isn’t it prostitution? They should make prostitution legal first then.

Let's say that you work for the government and accidentally read top secret documents with your Google Glass on and accidentally upload the recording to Youtube. Would it be a good excuse? And of course other people's privacy is much more important than those documents that are boring and uninteresting to 99% of people.

So of course the use of cameras should be regulated.

I can’t accidentally read top secret because it is secured much better than public places. I can’t disclose it by mistake. Its guards don’t expose it when they want to protest. People privacy can’t be more important than government documents, because protecting each citizen is much more complex/pricy task than protecting those documents. Disclosing those documents is a problem for all citizens. Disclosing citizen privacy is a problem for him. You can’t restrict good willing citizen rights because of bad guys.

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