CHINA-KISS
JANUARY 25 2008 09:41h
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The three-minute footage was uploaded online earlier this week, attracting thousands of hits on sites such as Youtube and sina.com.
The company found three staff were responsible for taking and uploading the video. Two had already left the company and the other was dismissed after the incident caused "public uproar", Xinhua news agency quoted authorities with Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd. as saying.
"We made formal apologies and are negotiating with the couple over compensation," they said.
The three-minute footage was uploaded online earlier this week, attracting thousands of hits on sites such as Youtube and sina.com.
Authorities have credited the installation of hundreds of thousands of closed-circuit security cameras in large Chinese cities for helping to reduce crime in recent years.
But Chinese legal experts and scholars have called for more robust privacy legislation to regulate the use of video footage and impose penalties on its abuse.
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