Help Accident Victims FIRST, and NOT Click Pics and Videos
Mangaluru: Lately taking Photos or Videos of Accident Victims is rising rapidly with phones available in everyone’s pockets. It’s becoming a nuisance as it seems to be the first thing everyone wants to do, rather than make a genuine attempt to help the victim first off. Imprisonment is not the answer, but a Fine/Penalty by the Police after tracking down such people responsible for circulating such videos and photos would be a good deterrent to this menace.
The Cyber Police can easily track down people who make derogatory posts or send obscene images via Facebook or Whatsapp, so this should not be difficult either.
We need our Govt. to bring forth rules regarding the same, to stop this menace that is spiraling out of control, you have already got Good Samaritan programs and others, now its time to also put a cap on Bad onlookers who just find pleasure in showing the world another person’s suffering.
Our IT Act prohibits sharing photos or videos of a person taken without consent, I can vouch for the victim on the road, he needs help and not a photo shoot session, and he/she isn’t pleased that their suffering is being shared on social media. We could one day lie on the road, imagine seeing only phones around us, capturing our plight but no hand in sight to help.
I have recently started off a petition on Change.org and it pertains to our State of Karnataka. I need your help to bring it out to a larger audience. It is regarding the fact that bystanders often ignore road accident victims and only linger around to click photos or take videos and upload them instantly.
It’s becoming a menace. People just watch someone die, instead of making any effort whatsoever to help. Imagine the POV from the victim, he/she only sees people capturing their grief and pain and sharing it with other people rather than helping.
So this petition is for rules to be put in place to penalize such people for sharing such images during crucial moments. Under our IT Act, it is clear we cannot publish or share images or videos without consent, I’m 100% sure no victim would ever give such consent. So by Law, it is wrong.
Please help bring this petition out to a larger audience. You have Corporate Social Responsibility too, these things matter, help make a change.
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Submitted by our reader: Lionel Kenneth Tauro: 9741751860
