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An important message to New Zealand schoolkids from Louis Rossmann (www.youtube.com)
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[-] Venator 6 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently this happened back in 2023...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350479936/can-schools-put-cctv-cameras-in-bathrooms-privacy-commissioner-makes-ruling

[-] BaconWrappedEnigma 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

From the wiki page linked in the description:

Schools that put cameras in student toilets

Named in reporting between 2011 and 2025:

Year School What was installed Source
2011 Wainuiomata High School, near Wellington Installed after a Privacy Commission warning that it may breach student privacy. RNZ News
2018 Tauraroa Area School, Northland Two cameras inside the Year 9–11 girls’ and boys’ toilets; the principal said they were meant to cover lockers. New Zealand Herald
2021 Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston North A camera facing the sinks in the girls’ bathroom; the school was cautioned by the Privacy Commission and kept it. 1News
2021 Wakatipu High School, Queenstown Corridor cameras could see through glass into the cubicle foyer and were used to count who entered a cubicle. Stuff
2023 Rangiora High School Cameras in toilet corridors, triggered by a vape sensor rather than recording continuously. 1News
2024 Cromwell College, Central Otago Cameras in toilets; the board said they would record only the common corridor area. Crux
2024 Awatapu College and Palmerston North Boys’ High School Communal-area cameras were being trialled at Awatapu and were already installed in bathrooms at the boys’ school. Manawatū Standard / Stuff
2025 Nelson College for Girls CCTV in bathrooms; a student reported no signage and a camera visible from the toilet. The Press

The Secondary Principals’ Association described this as common practice as far back as 2011. (RNZ)

By 2026, the Ministry of Education’s school-property guidance recommended CCTV for large schools and directed readers to the Privacy Commissioner’s bathroom guidance—making a camera in a children’s toilet block a line item in routine property guidance. (Ministry of Education)

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/User:Louis/Cameras_in_New_Zealand_school_bathrooms

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