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MAPLE -- A comic book store owner is accused of voyeurism after police say he was caught using a hidden camera to spy on a woman in the store's washroom. Officers were called to Dragon's Realm in the Norwood Plaza at 9661 Jane St., just south of Major Mackenzie Dr., around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after the young woman's boyfriend found a video camera, York police alleged. "Nobody should ever be subjected to something like this," Const. Laurie Perks said yesterday. The young couple, both 21, went to the store to pick up some comics they had ordered, Perks said. While...

A spy camera, estimated to cost £10,000 and designed to catch fly-tippers, was cleared by council workers after it was concealed in a rubbish bag. The expensive camera was placed inside a black bag beside a notorious illegal fly-tipping site. The disguise was so good that workers for Chichester District Council, West Sussex, cleared the camera believing it was genuine rubbish. "Because the camera had been hidden in something that looked like rubbish, they cleared that away as well," said John Cherry, the deputy council...

The rush to install an all-seeing, all-knowing camera on every street corner in the city represents the kind of invasiveness that should alarm those in the bluest locale in the nation, if only to be politically consistent. Their alarm certainly surfaces if the National Security Agency monitors overseas telephone conversations between al Qaeda members and their sympathizers here.