I just do not understand what is so complicated for you guys to understand. Accusing a MP of having cameras, recording or not, in the rooms where clients get nude (it is legal to get nude while having a massage), is accusing them of something illegal. You can’t make these accusations freely without proofs. You guys are unknown people talking behind a nickname. These MP are not, contrary to you, anonymous. They have a public address and are doing business in the eyes of everybody, including LE, just like any other business. Letting these accusations go freely is opening a huge battlefield for every MP to start attacking other MP’s using anonymous nicknames. Others can contradict the information, do you say? No. That is reversal of the responsibility of proof. Unacceptable.
Surveillance cameras in the rooms of a MP are illegal. Period.
Surveillance cameras at the entrance and in the corridors of a MP are an other matter. They are used for same purpose as in any other commerce: dissuasion against theft and violence. In some places they are hidden, in other places you can see them easily. They are used in virtually all MP’s in Québec City and, I am convinced, it is the same in Montreal. Are they recording? Of course they are. And the recordings can be held for 30 days in accordance to the recognized practices in Canada. You don’t like that? Then don’t go to massage parlours.
The legality of those surveillance systems is a complex issue. As techman said previously, a sigh should inform you of the presence of such cameras. I have never seen such a sign in a MP but, honestly, I have never looked for it. You think they should not be allowed? Go ahead: sue them! I am not going to. I agree with their presence and I think they work in favour of my protection.
Someone suggested previously that they could be used against you should a bust occur in a MP that happens to be a bawdy house. False. To get arrested in such a bust, you have to be in the said bawdy house at the moment of the bust. A recording of you at the entrance of a bawdy house cannot be used against you.