Just curious, but what are the laws regarding surveillance cameras and That Which Must Not Be Filmed. For example, a chav/bogan/other_despised_group teenage couple decides to steal gas at a service station. He runs the pump, while she, from start to finish of the pumping, stands facing the security camera with her top lifted to reveal her bare breasts. Since the surveillance camera system records everything within its field of view, all the footage of the gas theft (which the station owner would want to show to the police as evidence) also shows an underage girl topless.
Would the station owner (and owner of the camera/recorder setup) be subject to charges of manufacturing and possessing child pornography, since their system filmed a topless underage girl? If they supply the footage to the police as evidence in the gas theft, are they now subject to charges of distributing child pornography? Or does the fact that the system passively records EVERYTHING that happens on-site, so the decision to create the illegal-to-make footage rests with the person who did That Which Must Not Be Filmed in view of one of the cameras rather than the owner of the cameras, leave the site/owner in the clear so long as they don't actively make a copy of the footage to be retained (other than to turn over to the police as evidence of the theft)?
Would the station owner (and owner of the camera/recorder setup) be subject to charges of manufacturing and possessing child pornography, since their system filmed a topless underage girl? If they supply the footage to the police as evidence in the gas theft, are they now subject to charges of distributing child pornography? Or does the fact that the system passively records EVERYTHING that happens on-site, so the decision to create the illegal-to-make footage rests with the person who did That Which Must Not Be Filmed in view of one of the cameras rather than the owner of the cameras, leave the site/owner in the clear so long as they don't actively make a copy of the footage to be retained (other than to turn over to the police as evidence of the theft)?
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