translated from Spanish: What to do against upskirting: countries where this practice is a crime

The arrest of a man by Spanish police, sought for having made videos with sexual connotation and without prior consent to 555 women, some of them minors, put the phenomenon of “ups kirting,” a term that refers to taking a photograph or recording in an unauthorized way under a woman’s skirt, in which you will see part of her crotch and underwear.
The videos recorded by the subject were edited and uploaded to his profile on a porn website that had 3,519 subscribers, 84,594 views and a total of 1,367,999 views of his publications.
But this individual is not the only one who has dedicated himself to “upskirting”, but there are thousands of results that an internet search yields, where most of these videos are recorded on public transport, stairs or nightclubs, as indicated in the SModa section of the El País newspaper.
Although this is the first case recorded in Spain of great magnitude, in the rest of the world it is a practice already criminally punished in countries such as the United Kingdom, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia, where “upskirting” is considered a crime and punished as such.
In South Korea, meanwhile, there is no punishment against this phenomenon, and a few months ago, with banners such as “My life is not your porn” or “South Korea, spycam nation”, more than 40,000 women demonstrated against the hidden cameras that capture them in public restrooms , on escalators or while walking, with images ending up on pornography sites.
In the Spanish case, lawyer Paula Ibañez pointed out to El País that article 197 of the Penal Code specifies that if “the privacy of another is violated” with “recording or listening artifice” the accused may face jail, “punishable by imprisonment from one to quain 12 to twenty-four months’ fine.”
While this type of behavior is considered a crime in some parts of the world and condemned as such, but what do we do when I eat in Chile, it is not yet?
In Chile, on March 14 of this year President Sebastián Piñera introduced the bill that sanctions harassment by any means, which is still in the Chamber of Deputies. Its last review was on August 6, in which the simple urgency of the initiative considering sanctions for the following conduct was presented once again:
Harassment or harassment.
The non-consensual dissemination of personal data or records of images or sounds.
The crime of exhibiting and dissenting non-consensual sexual material.
You can review the bill here.

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