Posted on 10/02/2021 6:59:52 AM PDT by Salman
IKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the ceiling void while using the toilet.
Workers at the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant were concerned that they may have been spied on while in the bathroom.
The discovery was made last week when the lights were switched off. A member of staff spotted what appeared to be a small red light between the panels of a suspended ceiling. When they investigated, they found the hidden camera.
When they looked further, they found a number of other cameras above both the men's and ladies' toilets.
One worker told the Peterborough Telegraph: "They were not wireless cameras, there is a whole network of cable."
IKEA admitted they had been in place since 2015. The company did not say when they were last used.
While some reports have suggested a link between the cameras and the vicinity with the toilets, IKEA claims they were placed there for another purpose.
In a statement, a spokesperson for IKEA told The Register: "Peterborough Distribution Centre is a large warehouse facility where forklift trucks and HGVs are in regular operation.
"In support of our health and safety policy, we have a drugs testing policy in place as per industry standards.
"The installation of the cameras in 2015 was to detect alleged activity that could have resulted in serious injury to co-workers, and to maintain a high level of safety on-site.
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“network of cable”
IKEA was making COMPUTER CONTENT [”porn”]
on the unknowing and innocent.
accountability? that will be the day.
I always feel healthier knowing someone is watching me pee.
No chit?
IKEA is a liberal/progressive woke az company if there ever was one......Let the lawsuits commence!
1984 was written in the U.K.
Who knew it was an instruction manual.
But let’s not pick on the Brits, we’re only a centimeter behind them.
But, at least, we still have guns.
And we’re gonna need them.
Assuming it wasn't a pervert working alone, the company/managers are looking for on-the-job drug use.
Chuck Berry head of security ?
Shake it off, baby.
TEST them, but this is a breach of privacy...period.
lol
Children were obviously filmed and no telling where the footage ended up.
At what point to people have enough and take back their country?
So IKEA had their own in-house Facebook.
If underage children used those stalls...I’m thinking child porn laws should apply to the perpetrators.
What is there to take back? England never did belong to the people. The people belong to the monarch.
Does someone sell a square umbrella that you can pop open in the stall to thwart the ceiling cameras? Was this in the public bathrooms or employees only?
I don’t know about you but I’m gonna do a striptease before I drop the kids off at the pool. Ya never know, I might hit it big on only fans😁
They can catch thieves other ways....
Same question should be asked of United States citizens.
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