A report from three years ago has surfaced in which an Activision IT worker was fired by the company after installing secret cameras in a company bathroom.
New information continues to emerge around Activision Blizzard and what allegedly goes on behind the scenes at the publisher. This began with a lawsuit filed against the studio by the state of California, which prompted many of its employees to stage a walkout in response to the company's reaction to the filing, and information about a room Activision-Blizzard referred to as the “Cosby Suite” at BlizzCon has since surfaced.
The latest update is regarding a case involving an Activision employee dating back to 2018. Tony Nixon, an employee in the IT department of Activision's Minnesota office at the time, was accused of setting up cameras in a company bathroom to spy on employees as they used it. The matter went to court where Nixon pled guilty to the charges.
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Police were first made aware of the issue when an Activision employee showed up at the station to report that cameras had been found in the company bathroom. Court documents read that the unnamed employee had received an email from Activision's HR department informing them that, “an unauthorized monitoring device had been installed in the unisex bathrooms and that Activision was doing an internal investigation.” It isn't clear whether that employee was asked to inform the authorities by HR or if they acted of their own accord.
The detective who worked on the case, who has since retired, discovered that the cameras had been placed so that they were facing towards the toilets. Activision's own investigation discovered that Nixon had recently purchased waterproof cameras as well as battery packs compatible with the devices discovered in the bathrooms. When Nixon was confronted by the detective he admitted to capturing footage of employees using the bathroom for three weeks, but had deleted all of the footage.
Nixon was given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to interference with privacy. It's also alleged that he later breached his parole which resulted in Nixon having to partake in “sex offender treatment”. Activision terminated Nixon as soon as he was discovered to have been the one responsible for placing the cameras. The company offered crisis counseling to its employees and increased security measures as a result.
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