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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Technology that allows secret photographs to be taken in changing rooms and up women's skirts could send peeping New Zealanders to jail, the BBC reported.
Under measures proposed by Justice Minister Phil Goff, the making, publishing or distributing of voyeuristic material made without consent will carry a penalty of up to three years in prison.
In New Zealand examples of covert filming included a theater technician who installed a hidden camera in the dressing room of female performers and a man who used a camera in the toe of his shoe to film up women's skirts.
Under current New Zealand law, the classic "peeping Tom" offense of peering into a house can be committed only at night.
Not even the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties is condemning the proposed legislation, said its chairman, Michael Bott.
"I think that most people would agree that having people looking at them, taking photographs while they were doing a bodily function or having a shower ... is not 'on,'" said Bott.
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