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31 Mar, 2013

Colbert King: A too-candid camera at Starbucks – The Washington Post

It was a Saturday in April, a good day for sightseeing in our nation’s capital. After walking around, William A. Yockey, his wife, Lindsay, and their 5-year-old daughter, K.Y., visited a Starbucks coffee shop in the 300 block of Seventh Street NW, a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol and the Mall.

As it turned out, the Norfolk family’s sightseeing had just begun.

After Mr. Yockey and his daughter used the one operational unisex bathroom in Starbucks, little K.Y. observed a digital video recorder in the U-shaped drainpipe under the sink.

K.Y.’s height placed her closer to eye level with the pipe, where the camcorder nested in plain view, facing the toilet. She pointed it out to her dad.

Unbeknown to the Yockeys, they had been filmed as they attended to their personal and private needs.

Read the rest: Colbert King: A too-candid camera at Starbucks – The Washington Post.