Bangkok department store says they have removed "peeping tom camera"

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A department store in Bangkok have removed a surveillance camera after it was claimed online that it could be used to peer into a ladies' changing room.

 

Comment was rife after "Red Skull Phatthalung" posted a picture of the camera high up in the rafters at the store in Bang Phlat district.

 

Amarin TV got involved and went to the store where a manager said the camera had now been removed after the furor.

 

But the store said that the position of the camera meant that it could not film in the dressing room.

 

It was there to keep an eye on cashiers outside the dressing room.

 

However a shopper - named as Kanika - dismissed that saying it was high up and could really see into the dressing room. She said that she would not be going back to the store to buy clothes again.

 

As is usual in Thailand the store was not named in the Sanook story.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

As is usual in Thailand the store was not named in the Sanook story.

But it was narrowed dramatically down by the fact it was in Bangkok and sold clothes.

 

Someone was having their own twisted version of sanook.

 

That camera is a PTZ camera, and can be rotated at the will of the controller. It may not have been focussing on the womens dressing rooms when Amarin TV showed up, but those kind of cameras definitely have the potential to be focussed anywhere within a 360 degree radius that a wall does not prevent the viewing angle. 

A quick look at the monitor would have answered the question of where it could spy.

'As is usual in Thailand the store was not named ...'

 

Heaven forbid that the media should upset the Thai defamation law's apple cart. 

Well, wondering how many dressing rooms have been misused? For little movie clips or for double dressing on the way out?