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An incensed Chinese couple, videotaped hugging and kissing on a subway platform, plan to sue the subway's operator after the video was uploaded to YouTube and other websites, attracting thousands of hits.
The three-minute video of the couple in their 20s was shot in September and uploaded to the internet last week, the China Daily reported. It drew more than 15,000 hits in two days.
The couple had hired a lawyer in the interests "of all passengers travelling on metro trains in Shanghai", the paper quoted the unnamed man in the video as saying.
Subway operator Shanghai Metro Operation had promised "severe punishment" if employees were found to have misused the video.
Authorities have credited the installation of security cameras for helping to reduce crime.
But Chinese legal experts have called for more robust privacy legislation to regulate the use of footage.
- REUTERS
