Have you ever felt your privacy has been invaded? It is definitely the one thing many people feel uncomfortable with. A Woolworths shopper has caused a stir with a Facebook post. Are you usually in the business of invading the privacy of your customers? We have had extensive discussions with the relevant stakeholders in the business and confirm that the cameras in the fitting room is according to our specification, which is that it be fixed and only focuses on the entrance to the fitting rooms in order to review process.

Local Restrictions
1. Stare Into The Mirror
Depending on how it's used, a video camera in a dressing room may violate customers' privacy. Thieves steal an estimated 1 percent of retail stores' inventories, with a third of that loss attributable to shoplifters rather than light-fingered employees. In response, merchants step up the amount of surveillance they implement. Privacy laws place restrictions on where and how employees and cameras may be used to monitor customers. Before you install a video camera in a dressing room, verify that you're not crossing the line between legitimate loss prevention efforts illegal surveillance. Before you install any form of video technology in retail fitting rooms, identify which equipment and procedures your state or municipal laws allow or prohibit. For example, in Nebraska, fitting and dressing rooms are settings in which customers expect privacy, and merchants can't intrude on that privacy. Penalties for intrusions increase when an adult surveils a minor. In Florida, a merchant can't watch, tape or surveil customers in fitting and dressing rooms. The law allows direct observation from outside the dressing room as part of the job of running or working in the store, and allows customers to invite a store associate into the dressing room to assist with the tasks of trying on or altering a garment.
2. Flash Light Test
Shopping can be a stressful situation considering that you have to be in a crowded place and deal with a lot of bright lights and noise. However, the truth is that you might not be alone. We are used to cameras and expect there to be hidden ones in the store in open areas. However, there is a reasonable expectation that when you will have privacy when you walk into a dressing room. Incredibly, many states actually allow cameras in fitting rooms , and plenty of retailers take advantage of this loss prevention method.
AP — Police believe more than 60 women and girls were secretly recorded undressing in changing rooms at northern Virginia shopping malls in the weeks before Christmas. Fairfax County Police arrested year-old Mumtaz Rauf of Alexandria on Christmas Eve and charged him with unlawful filming of a minor after a girl noticed a small camera in a changing room at a Forever 21 store in Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax. On Thursday, police announced they have evidence Rauf may have filmed more than 60 women and girls between Dec.