The Toilet Camera File — When a Privacy Incident Becomes a Fight Over Identity, Redaction, and What Courts Can (and Cannot) Decide
This book begins in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , with a concrete allegation and a concrete address: that on 27 June 2023 , at Geekstar Internet Café, Level 3/630 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 , I observed what appeared to be a security camera positioned inside a male toilet space, oriented toward an area of maximum privacy. I treated the event as urgent and reported it to NSW Police that night. What followed—rather than a clean evidentiary pathway—became, in my experience, a prolonged contest over identity , redaction , and the practical ability of an ordinary person to commence civil process when an alleged wrong has occurred. The hinge document in the narrative is the police record itself: COPS Event E77625117 . The book’s claim is not that this record “proves” every contested proposition, but that it becomes the administrative spine around which every later institution rotates. The version released to me was redacted in a way I contend removed the identifying material...
