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TrackinDaKraken
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Getting children used to that is the real cost, and it does not depend on anyone misusing a clip. Children who grow up watched in the bathroom become adults who expect to be watched everywhere. No privacy impact assessment measures that, and no drop in vaping is worth teaching it.

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Varesti
lemmy.zip

This guy is cool, but he always looks like he has been up for 3 weeks straight.

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BaconWrappedEnigmareply
lemmy.nz

From the wiki page linked in the description:

Schools that put cameras in student toilets

Named in reporting between 2011 and 2025:

YearSchoolWhat was installedSource
2011Wainuiomata High School, near WellingtonInstalled after a Privacy Commission warning that it may breach student privacy.RNZ News
2018Tauraroa Area School, NorthlandTwo cameras inside the Year 9–11 girls’ and boys’ toilets; the principal said they were meant to cover lockers.New Zealand Herald
2021Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston NorthA camera facing the sinks in the girls’ bathroom; the school was cautioned by the Privacy Commission and kept it.1News
2021Wakatipu High School, QueenstownCorridor cameras could see through glass into the cubicle foyer and were used to count who entered a cubicle.Stuff
2023Rangiora High SchoolCameras in toilet corridors, triggered by a vape sensor rather than recording continuously.1News
2024Cromwell College, Central OtagoCameras in toilets; the board said they would record only the common corridor area.Crux
2024Awatapu College and Palmerston North Boys’ High SchoolCommunal-area cameras were being trialled at Awatapu and were already installed in bathrooms at the boys’ school.Manawatū Standard / Stuff
2025Nelson College for GirlsCCTV in bathrooms; a student reported no signage and a camera visible from the toilet.The Press

The Secondary Principals’ Association described this as common practice as far back as 2011. (RNZ)

By 2026, the Ministry of Education’s school-property guidance recommended CCTV for large schools and directed readers to the Privacy Commissioner’s bathroom guidance—making a camera in a children’s toilet block a line item in routine property guidance. (Ministry of Education)

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/User:Louis/Cameras_in_New_Zealand_school_bathrooms

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