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If an employee at a photo lab was keeping and sharing copies of compromising pictures there would be huge outrage and rightfully so. Just because they have to handle personal data doesn't mean it's acceptable to share and laugh with your colleagues; it should be handled with the utmost respect for your users' privacy.

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I have bad news for you. This exact topic has been discussed on my local radio station (in a medium sized city) and loads of callers described working at a photo lab where there was a drawer full of copies of "noteworthy" photos.

I think it's apples and oranges though. With a photo lab the customer has deliberately handed over whatever images they want developed, whether the images are private or not. Tesla employees sharing images from cameras that some people may have plausibly not even known were there feels like much more of a violation.

If an employee at a hotel planted secret cameras and...

If an vacation rental landlord planted secret cameras and...

Bad news all around.

You can go to jail for having a surveillance system in your own home: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-doctor-guilty-of-making-se...

Hidden surveillance of the unsuspecting in restrooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms -anywhere where people can expect to have privacy- should of course be illegal. Nannycams in living rooms and other "public" rooms in private homes probably should be legal for obvious reasons.

"I have bad news for you."

Yes, secret cameras can get the host in trouble, but poke around at airbnb listings and you'll see cases where everyone reports highly visible internal cameras.

I'm not saying its good.

That's what I mean about a mischaracterization. There's no indication of long term retention, but rather of pointing and laughing.

Remember the olden days of photo labs at the mall that would run the pictures visibly in front of the window?

They don't do that any more, but the employees still point and laugh while they are in their possession. Right or wrong, it is human nature, when they all technically have access.

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