U.K. Govt. Employee Arrested for Downloading Surveillance Footage of Couple Having Sex

Posted: 2012/08/29 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports

An operator responsible for monitoring surveillance footage for the town of Shrewsbury in the U.K. has been arrested after authorities discovered that he downloaded footage of a young couple caught by the cameras having sex in the town center.

Catherine Hughes and Kevin Naylor were evidently so charged up over England’s June match against France in the Euro 2012 game (which ended in a tie), that they decided to have sex in the street in downtown Shrewsbury, according to the Mirror.

The couple must not have heard that U.K. streets are blanketed with thousands of closed-circuit surveillance cameras (CCTVs).

One of the operators in the CCTV monitoring center, an unnamed man in his 40s, allegedly downloaded the footage to his mobile phone and shared it “inappropriately.” The man has been suspended from his duties for possible violation of the Data Protection Act and is currently on bail.

More:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/surveillance-arrest-sex/

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