Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
This is not a "who is right or wrong" post. The hotel actually gave the man explicit consent to enter what he expected to be his private space. He might have had an immediate reaction to expect that you might be the intruder. Now, why he decided to pick up the phone and record, that's another story. But still, he had an expectation that this was his private space.
I've both walked in on someone else, and have had someone else walk in on me. I'm not female, nor was naked. It probably happens the same way that airlines assign a duplicate seat. The infallible computer. I'd say that was the only way, but many many years ago, a reputable chain hotel gave me a key (remember those) and I entered to find a man jumping out of bed and scrambling to find cover.
So, I'm not discounting what you experienced, but to this unintelligent poster, it appears to be a civil matter between you and the hotel. And the hotel should make right by you.
Unintelligent poster? Am I misunderstanding something, or are you suggesting I'm stupid?
Yes, there is a civil matter with the hotel. The hotel, through their negligence in duty of care, enabled an intruding guest to film non-consensual pornography. Whether the liability lies wholly/mostly with the intruder or the hotel is perhaps a complex issue, owing to the consent the hotel provided by affording the intruding guest not only directions to the room but an access card. This is an intruding guest who chose to stand in my room for about 30 seconds actively filming a naked person that had expressed, very clearly and multiple times, that no consent had been afforded for entry or filming. In any case, what I am fairly certain of is that my choices – in and after the extended moment of being filmed naked without consent – do not qualify me as an obvious idiot.