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'Spycam' Epidemic Seizes South Korea's Women

posted by chromas on Monday October 22 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

Al Jazeera:

South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.

The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.

The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.

Srsly?

Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @10:52PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday October 22 2018, @10:52PM (#752221) Journal

    It's not hard to imagine complacency creeping in. You check the toilets one thousand times for cameras, are you going to catch the one spycammed toilet?

    Or they could just say that they check but not do it whatsoever.

    The "50 government employees" could refer to a police task force giving directions to janitorial staff, and they might not even handle the issue full time. They may just eat doughnuts while talking about the issue in a conference room once per quarter.

    The toilets could be checked by janitors only after a building closes. So the perpetrator just needs to install them sometime after opening time and uninstall before closing time.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:09AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:09AM (#752869) Journal

    so
    - they put spycams to catch those who put spycams
    - spycam number skyrockets
    - Yeah got one!
    - hey, it looks just like you!
    - it looks just like you either. We all look alike. Damn.

    and they all lived happily ever after

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