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Eight hotels, restaurants have secret cameras

Businesses break country's surveillance law

April 30th, 2008 issue

(Updated May 7, 2008) Eight hotels and restaurants in Prague and Brno are breaking the law by using secret camera systems to monitor guests, Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Wednesday.

Workers from the Bureau for Personal Data Protection and news reporters did a “spot check” of 13 businesses in the two cities. Of those, eight had camera systems, all violating a law which requires those with cameras to tell their patrons they are under surveillance, said Igor Němec, head of the Bureau for Personal Data Protection.

Among the violators are the Hotel Ambassador in Prague and the International Hotel in Brno.

But Jiří Volf, manager of Kolkovna/Olympia Restaurant, said he has small signs posted above the door and in a restaurant window informing guests that they’re being watched. He unabashedly pointed out tiny camera lenses, no larger than a centimeter in size.

"A layman can't tell there is a recording system in here," he told MfD.


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