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University warns students after covert videos of women posted on porn website

Students and faculty asked to keep eye out for man with silver blue bicycle

Clark Mindock
New York
Friday 07 June 2019 21:28 BST
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An alert has been issued to students and faculty at Oregon State University after secretly filmed videos of women on campus were discovered posted on a pornography website.

More than 50 such videos have reportedly been found on the website, according to the school’s department of public safety, and all appear to have been recorded within the past few weeks.

According to a notice posted on Facebook, the videos do not show faces that make the individuals in the videos recognisable.

We were “notified today by two members of the university community that numerous videos recorded of women walking on campus have been loaded on an Internet porn site”, the notice posted by the Oregon State University department of public safety reads.

They continue: “The videos number more than 50, are dated to have been recorded over the past few weeks, and are all of subjects photographed from behind. There are no recognisable face images or names associated with the videos.”

No arrests have been made in relation to the videos, but police have asked the community to keep an eye out for a person who might be following others. The suspect may have a silver blue mountain bike while following, they said, and would be recording with a cell phone.

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