A Website showing hidden camera rump shots of women may offend many Norwegians, but there's nothing the law can do about it – because, in Norway, it's no crime to publish shots of body parts without consent if you can't identify the owner of said body parts.
Tips to Norwegian newspapers from angry readers produced information that the Website's e-mail contacts didn't work, according to Aftenposten's English language edition, but they were still hoping to hear from the site's Webmaster, who reportedly has the site's only functioning address.
Police attorney Tor Henning Knudsen told reporters that complaints about an unauthorized picture have to involve depicting a person and not a body part. "If no one can recognize their own behind and so take offence, then the question of consent to photographing or publication cannot be raised," Knudsen said.
The images in question were apparently shot around Oslo's main streets and within the vicinity of the Norwegian Parliament, Aftenposten said. "Girls bottoms by themselves are not pornography, even if some surely use them as such," Knudsen said. "Even though I believe sneak photography is allowed by law I can understand that some people find this unfortunate."
