Camera in the toilet

I was in a pub tonight in Cork, mods let me know if |I can name it or not, but anyway. There is a camera in the corner of the toilet looking down on the urinals
surely this is totally illegal?

heffomike54

At a total guess, I would imagine it would depend on the angle of the cameras as to their legality.

robbie_998

Harmoni Polite Cartoonist wrote: »

I was in a pub tonight in Cork, mods let me know if |I can name it or not, but anyway. There is a camera in the corner of the toilet looking down on the urinals
surely this is totally illegal?

i dunno.

remember the incident with the school in Kildare ? anyone ?

mink_man

Harmoni Polite Cartoonist wrote: »

I was in a pub tonight in Cork, mods let me know if |I can name it or not, but anyway. There is a camera in the corner of the toilet looking down on the urinals
surely this is totally illegal?

well i know that pat mcdonagh (supermacs owner) put cameras in the toilets because there lots of claims of falls and stuff after people would throw water on the ground and intentionally slip, maybe they have it pointin donw the urinals in case you cut ur willy off on purpose and you try to claim? :pac:

Well the camera was on the same side of the wall as the urinals, i.e looking across them. If it was watching for people falling/drugs etc they could easily have placed it in the other corner so it was facing the back of a lad taking a p**s. To be honest it doesn't bother me if some one is watching me taking a whizz but whats the difference between this and putting a camera over a cubicle in a womans toilet? If that happened the place would be shut down.

Whats the difference between this and a camera in a changing room, it just cannot be legal!!

nuac

Drug dcealing and other illegal activities happen in toilets. IMHO camera justified.

slimjimmc

It's legality may be in doubt http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/students-walk-out-in-protest-at-cameras-mounted-in-school-toilets-105471.html

"The guidance available from the Data Protection Commissioner said the use of CCTV to monitor areas where individuals would have a reasonable expectation of privacy such as in toilets and rest rooms would be difficult to justify under data protection legislation," a statement read.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/students-walk-out-in-protest-at-cameras-mounted-in-school-toilets-105471.html#ixzz0ujEHeo31

JohnK

Can you tell us what pub it was OP?

Bob Z

nuac wrote: »

Drug dcealing and other illegal activities happen in toilets. IMHO camera justified.

how is justified? if there was stuff happening in the cubicals would they be justified to put ones there too

D.McC

The use of CCTV in areas were users have an expectation of privacy is illegal.

Supermacs, placed their cameras in areas were privacy wouldn’t be an issue.

Reloc8

A sensible course of action for the proprietor would be to place notices in the areas affected stating that CCTV camera is used.

D.McC

Anywhere CCTV is used, warning signs have to be erected