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China fails to curb the ‘secret filming betrayal’ of women and girls
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Covert footage is used to entice people to pay for access to private channels promising more content.
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Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu
BEIJING – The women and girls are captured on hidden cameras as they use public or school bathrooms, undress in fitting rooms or relax at home. The footage is posted in anonymous online chat groups with as many as 100,000 members each, from all over China.
In one group, people post nude or semi-nude photos of women they describe as their current or former wives or girlfriends. One recent message captioned “secretly taken photos of wife” includes pictures of a woman lounging in a nightgown, lying exposed from the waist down.
