Australia: smartphones make it easier for peekers to become upskirters

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With an estimated 800 million individual porn pages on the internet, most of them free, there are easier, legal ways to get indecent pictures. But it's also easier than ever before to photograph victims covertly, because, thanks to smartphones and tablet devices, it's normal to walk around unnoticed with a camera in your hand.

"In clinical practice, we have seen trends increasing in these behaviours," says Georgina O'Donnell, a forensic and clinical psychologist with experience in cases of paraphilic disorder, the clinical category that covers so-called upskirting offences.