With social media applications such as Instagram, SnapChat, and
Facebook, it seems like people document almost every moment of
their lives online. But what the social media savvy may not know is
that these posts could expose them to criminal liability.
A Playboy Playmate is learning this the hard way after taking
photographs in a gym locker room and uploading them to SnapChat.
One of the photos captured a naked woman using a gym shower. After
the photograph went viral, police began investigating whether the
Playmate's conduct violated California's "Disorderly
conduct: invasion of privacy" law. The law holds that:
"[A]ny person who uses a concealed camcorder,
motion picture camera, or photographic camera of any type, to
secretly videotape, film, photograph, or record by electronic
means, another, identifiable person who may be in a state of full
or partial undress, for the purpose of viewing the body of, or the
undergarments worn by, that other person, without the
