The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the voyeurism conviction of a man who took still images of Skype encounters he had with his long-distance girlfriend. The court found that while the woman consented to the Skype encounters, the intimate screenshots were taken without her knowledge. “This example provides a short and direct path to the conclusion that the complainant had a reasonable expectation the appellant would not take screenshots of their consensual sexual activity,” Justice Russell Juriansz wrote. “It should not make a difference that their consensual activity took place in ‘virtual space’ rather than in a physical room.”
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