SCOV Law

By Andy Delaney This post covers two weeks' worth of opinions, which—thankfully for my Saturday plans—only adds up to four this time.   Last week, SCOV first grappled with a privacy nightmare.  Bill Simmon—an employee at the time of Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM)—secretly filmed two sisters (at 17 and 19) while they were changing clothes at the station. Simmon then posted the videos online where they've been viewed over a million times. As the kids say, WTAF?  Back in 2012, Simmon was working for VCAM and teaching film classes at Community College of Vermont. He invited one sister, who was his student, to film a commercial at VCAM's studio, telling her to bring different outfits and that she could bring a friend. What the sisters didn't know was that Simmon had installed hidden VCAM cameras in the utility room where he told them to change clothes. He recorded them changing into five-to-seven different outfits. Creepy as heck, right?  To quote Billy Mays, ...