Privacy: Do you think people are too relaxed about it?
- August 19, 2010 11:54 AM |
- By POV

A customer at the bar in Vancouver's Opus Hotel said she was shocked to discover men could watch her on video monitors placed over the urinals in the hotel's men's washroom.
Elisabeth Everett told CBC News Wednesday that she was in a group at a table in the bar celebrating her sister's birthday, but became alarmed when another patron told her they were being recorded and the video was broadcast in the men's washroom above the urinals.
There are no signs in the bar warning patrons they're on camera, but the bar menu does mention that the restrooms, including the women's, feature "live video feeds to keep an eye on the action."
Opus's website also invites patrons to "indulge your inner voyeurism" while using the facilities.
The bar's general manager said Everett's complaint was the first the hotel has received about the in-house feeds, which he said are not recorded.
If there are more complaints, the hotel might consider changing the video system, he said.
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Is this an invasion of privacy? Is there is a lack of privacy these days? Do you think people are too relaxed about their privacy?
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' responses.)
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