particular camera hidden in the Austrian part of the Corinthian forest to capture wildlife unwittingly captured photograph of an Austrian politician have a little , er … wild in his own life .
His sex life history , that is .
Carefully hide , placed well away from areas buy at by people and packing motion sensor the photographic camera was designed to register the wildlife of the woods in the Austrian region of Carinthia but rather caught the politician ’s physical affaire .
Now , the unnamed politician stands to incur the equivalent of $ 25,000 in compensatory damages for having had his privacy occupy — if the court rules that this was , in fact , the nature of the case .
Legal expert aver the television camera conflict Austrian laws curb the use of surveillance cameras . Hans Zeger , president of Argen Daten , an NGO specialising in datum tribute , said prescribed permission was needed to come out the camera , and “ at the very least is should have been marked with signs so visitors could conform their behaviour and avoid the monitored field . ” But the Carinthia Hunting Society , the organisation which place the camera , defended the use of the spying equipment .
It may ultimately fall down to the court ’s interpretation of “ wildlife in the forest . ” After all , we ’re just a cluster of beast acting on our beast instincts , if you think about it , are n’t we ? [ BusinessInsider – icon via Poznukhov Yuriy / Shutterstock ]
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