MANILA, Philippines -- Aware that technology could be misused and result in the "invasion of one’s private acts,’’ Senator Pia Cayetano has filed a bill that seeks to prohibit and penalize the recording of private acts as well as of the distribution or exhibition of such recordings without the consent of the person involved.

Cayetano filed the proposed Anti-Video Voyeurism Act of 2009’ on Wednesday, a day after Senator Ramon "Bong’’ Revillar Jr. exposed sex videos shot by Doctor Hayden Kho with television actress Katrina Halili and other women.

In pushing for the immediate passage of her measure, Cayetano said many women caught in sex scandals on the Internet and mobile phones have been "doubly’’ victimized.

"First, when the recording was made without their consent and second, when such recording was viewed again and again,’’ Cayetano said in an explanatory note on Senate Bill 3267.

She said that such violations were "considered the highest form of violation to the privacy of the offended person.’’

"Such violation is condemnable and needs to be penalized in its highest degree,’’ Cayetano said.

Under the bill, it will be unlawful for any person to record or attempt to record any private acts, including but not limited to sexual acts, without the consent of all the concerned parties.

It will also be unlawful for any person to "knowingly possess’’ any video tape, disc or any such record or their copies, "with the intent to share, relay or exhibit the contents.’’

The bill also bars a person from sharing or exhibiting these records.

If passed into law in its present form, violators will be punished with jail terms of not less than six months or more than six years and a fine of P100,000 but not more than P500,000.