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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomeone’s watching: More than 200 British high schools have cameras in bathrooms, locker rooms
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Associated Press, Published: September 12
LONDON At the King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, teens who go to the loo are never really alone video cameras are inside all 12 bathrooms.
Citing findings gathered via freedom-of-information requests, privacy activists Wednesday identified King Ecgbert as one of more than 200 high schools across Britain that have installed surveillance cameras in bathrooms or locker rooms.
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A total of 207 high schools across England, Wales and Scotland acknowledged installing cameras in bathrooms and changing rooms, according to Big Brother Watch, which sent freedom-of-information requests to nearly 4,100 schools in May. Thats a conservative figure, according to Pickles. Nearly half the schools queried didnt reply by the deadline.
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Over all, Big Brother Watch estimated that British high school students and staff are monitored by more than 100,000 cameras, with 90 percent of the schools surveyed acknowledging the use of some form of video surveillance.
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LONDON At the King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, teens who go to the loo are never really alone video cameras are inside all 12 bathrooms.
Citing findings gathered via freedom-of-information requests, privacy activists Wednesday identified King Ecgbert as one of more than 200 high schools across Britain that have installed surveillance cameras in bathrooms or locker rooms.
(snip)
A total of 207 high schools across England, Wales and Scotland acknowledged installing cameras in bathrooms and changing rooms, according to Big Brother Watch, which sent freedom-of-information requests to nearly 4,100 schools in May. Thats a conservative figure, according to Pickles. Nearly half the schools queried didnt reply by the deadline.
(snip)
Over all, Big Brother Watch estimated that British high school students and staff are monitored by more than 100,000 cameras, with 90 percent of the schools surveyed acknowledging the use of some form of video surveillance.
more
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/someones-watching-more-than-200-british-high-schools-have-cameras-in-bathrooms-locker-rooms/2012/09/12/af02e35c-fcba-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html
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Someone’s watching: More than 200 British high schools have cameras in bathrooms, locker rooms (Original Post)
Electric Monk
Sep 2012
OP
Would You Want A Bunch Of Guys Watching You On Camera While You Do Number Two?
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2012
#3
Sorry, I don't want some creeper watching me or any kids in the bathroom.
backscatter712
Sep 2012
#10
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. All of this surveillance is such an invasion. How the F did civilization ever
make it this far. People are being herded and corralled like cattle. Well, more like lambs. Makes one wonder what horny bastards are sitting there watching the captured images. None can tell that doesn't go on. Of course it does. Then, there are all of the profiteers lining up at the feeding troughs. What a ridiculous excuse for a civilized society we have become.
jenw2
(374 posts)2. What's wrong with safer bathrooms?
Conservatives always side with violence.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)3. Would You Want A Bunch Of Guys Watching You On Camera While You Do Number Two?
.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)4. Not to mention your wife/mother/daughter/son n/t
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)6. WTH?! You DO know what happens in bathrooms and changing rooms, right?
msongs
(67,441 posts)11. yes, people get bullied and attacked violently nt
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)8. This is not about safety,
but you knew that.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)10. Sorry, I don't want some creeper watching me or any kids in the bathroom.
Why would anyone actually think this is a good idea?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)5. Sounds like child porn to me.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)7. Coming soon to a bathroom near you.
Worse thought, probably already there.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)9. The brits have been going this road for so many years
that I wish I could even feign surprise, to be honest.
IT is the MOST WATCHED OVER western society at present.