Teacher Filming His Female Students
Teacher Filming His Female Students | |
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Short Title | A High School Teacher in Canada Was Secretly Filming His Female Teenage Students |
Location | Canada |
Date | 2010 |
Solove Harm | Surveillance, Exclusion |
Information | Physical Characteristics, Identifying |
Threat Actors | A high school teacher |
Individuals | |
Affected | Female teenage students |
High Risk Groups | Children, Females |
Tangible Harms | Anxiety, Changed Behavior |
A high school teacher in Canada was secretly filming his female students' chests with a hidden camera disguised as a pen.
Description
A teacher in a Canadian high school was found to be using a camera disguised as a pen to film female students' chests in 2010 and 2011.Surveillance
The girls haven't spoken publicly about the case until 2020, as they haven't legally been allowed to.
One of the 27 teenagers who were secretly filmed has opened up to the media, telling she was 14-years-old when the teacher used his pen camera to film her chest.
She didn't know it was happeningExclusion until she saw one of the videos. The video she saw was short, like most of the clips police would find, was captured during conversations in common areas such as the cafeteria and hallways.
Outside of school, the girl explained, she struggled to feel safe in public places. Even today, she says she constantly surveys people to see if she is being recorded.
The Supreme Court agreed unanimously in early 2019 that the teacher was guilty of voyeurism. They also ruled students do not give up their privacy rights, even if the school has security cameras.
The landmark voyeurism case would change privacy laws in Canada and would land the teacher in jail.