In the course of the sexism scandal around the video name Publisher Activision Blizzard comes a new incident to the light: 2018 an employee should have installed two video cameras on the toilet of an office building. After an internal report, an employee turned to the police.
That's the situation:
- An authority of the state California sued Activision Blizzard because of the discrimination against women: they are to be paid worse at Activision Blizzard and be treated worse than men. In addition, Blizzard should have come to cases of sexual harassment.
- For a week, a discussion about Activision Blizzard is raging. Employees report incidents from their time at Blizzard. It was known, for example, that an important WOW employee was fired in 2020 for sexual harassment.
- Now an unpleasant incident arises from 2018.
Where should that happen? The toilet incident did not take place in California, but in Eden Prarie, Minessota. There is a QA department of Activision Blizzard: They take over the quality assurance of games, hunting after bugs and problems; Something like professional alpha testers.
2 video cameras discovered on the "unisex" toilet
That has occurred there: On August 23, 2018, a man came to the local police station and showed a memo of the HR department. There was in it, someone would have "without authorization" installed a recording device in the unisex toilets of the office building and Activision Blizzard introduces an internal examination.
A detective of the police went to Activision Blizzard the next day and experienced that a staff found two cameras in the toilets. The cameras were degraded and sent to California for examination.
The cameras were installed so that they observed the toilets.
The police got out quickly, who was the culprit. Because an employee had bought "Micro SD cards, waterproof camcorders and batteries", which fit the cameras in the toilets.
When they confronted the suspect with the evidence, he admitted to have installed the cameras about 3 weeks ago. It was an IT employee.
Employees immediately fired for "abominable behavior", strengthened security measures
That says Activision Blizzard: In a statement to the US page Waypoint you say: When the incident has been reported, you introduced an internal investigation, removed all cameras and notify the authorities.
When the authorities had identified the guilty, Activision Blizzard threw him out for his "vile behavior". The company then hired crisis consultants to talk to the employees and aggravates their security arrangements.
That's how this went out: The employee confessed the violation of privacy guilty and got a probation. He hurt but he had to attend a program for sex offenders.
In the course of the action against Activision Blizzard, some old incidents are now coming to the light, which are taken as evidence that it was already boomed under the surface:
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