Spying on naked women with CCTV security cameras. Is this okay?
Sarcaztic Baztard asked:
Keep shouting that "if you 've not done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about the". Maybe this isn 't true, after all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4609746.stm
Keep shouting that "if you 've not done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about the". Maybe this isn 't true, after all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4609746.stm
September 15th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
…wow.. that’s gross….
I don’t care if it was a guy or a girl, no one should be spying on you in your home… I’m glad the judge saw through them.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:56 am
No, it’s clearly not okay. There’s a certain amount of privacy which all people are entitled to and using CCTV to breach that is a flagrant violation of privacy.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:37 am
In all honesty, the people that don’t have curtains (Net/Or night time) are attention whores anyway. She is only playing upset because she can get some money out of it. So sad! If she is reading this….buy some curtains you gold digging fool!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
No, it’s not okay. Just because she wasn’t doing anything “wrong” doesn’t mean it’s okay to violate her privacy. This is a gross misuse of security cameras.
That must be absolutely humiliating.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am
It is absolutely not ok. It’s appalling.
However, I gather the camera was on the street so I can’t understand how they managed to see the woman. Doesn’t she have net curtains/blinds/draw the curtains when it’s dark?
RoVale makes the very good point that while the cameras were trained on the woman’s flat they may have missed an incident for which they were actually intended.
September 21st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
For you to be asking a question such as this it tends to make me believe that you have a couple of screws loose and that someone never taught you about privacy issues while growing up.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
No one should spy on anyone when such a person has an expectation of privacy, male or female.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
OMG! That’s awful!!!
September 26th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
It is illegal and it’s good that the perpetrators faced the due consequences but… come on!
“Her life has almost been ruined, her self-confidence entirely destroyed by the thought that prying male eyes have entered her flat.”
Someone clearly wants to milk out a huge amount of monetary compensation from this.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:49 am
No, because these men were not doing the job they were hired to do. They were supposed to be using the camera to look for potential trouble on the street. Instead, they were using the company’s time and equipment to spy on someone who was using poor judgment but was not committing a crime. They could have missed a potential terrorist attack or major crime because they had the camera trained elsewhere. How many people might have been able to get away with muggings or robberies that could have occurred but were never filmed because they weren’t doing their job?
Yes, the victim could have pulled the blinds or covered up her windows but she probably had no inkling that someone was peeping at her. Not everybody is aware that there are those who get their sick jollies out of looking into other people’s windows.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:36 am
This why they make blinds.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
It’s privacy invasion in the strongest sense of the word, and shows an appalling lack of self-control.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I think the only people who believe this to be ok are those perverted individuals who can only get it up from voyeurism.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:17 am
thats awful! what was she doing using the loo and walking around with the curtains open ? weird. and what perverts. good to know our council tax is paying these idiots
October 7th, 2009 at 9:35 am
no its only ok if they let you dumb ass
October 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Isn’t it odd? The cameras everywhere were one of the reasons _1984_ was so shocking. And yet here they are.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Of course not.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:44 am
The fact that you even ask the question is a statement about the complete decay of decency in today’s society.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
If they don’t know about it, then I don’t see the harm.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
You will find that that is against the law in most states of the United States of America, and in a lot of other countries, only in the movies is it legal, and no, that is not considered a movie!