In some old buildings they do have music in the elevator still. it was much more common in the late 50’s-70’s to hear background music in elevators. that was where it got it’s big start, hence “elevator music”. you still hear it in some stores, offices/waiting rooms, and other places like “hold music”.

Radio was still a fledgling art in the 1920s, difficult and expensive to manage, so Squier created a way of transmitting signals across electrical wires, no radio necessary. In 1934, he founded his company, Wired Radio Inc.; inspired by the sound of another successful company called “Kodak,” he later named it “Muzak.”

The elevator music is supposed to coverup the mechanical noises from the elevator, which will be quieter in a cheaper elevator. I think the main reason though, might just be that todays society is easily offended and the companies and buildings wish to not offend and thus keep the music off.

The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY can trace its origins to 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City. By the turn of the century, the company had introduced electric elevators and escalators to its product line. …

Mirrors actually help to give the optical illusion of the lift being larger than it is, which helps some people who have claustrophobia to deal with their journey within the box. The purpose of having mirrors within the lift is to allow you to see what everyone is doing.

All they could think of was their very natural fear of falling from an elevator suspended mid-air with nothing but cables. So, mirrors were installed in order to distract people and give them something to look at while they waited.

Plane mirror reflections create upright virtual images at the same magnification, or size, and distance as the objects they reflect. This is why you can use a plane mirror to determine exactly where something behind you is.

Many elevators in public places such as office buildings, hotels, stadiums, and theaters are going to have video cameras in the elevators. It is perfectly legal and acceptable to record people coming and going, both for the safety of other visitors and the property. In some cases, it is essential.

Hiding cameras in hotel rooms is illegal in the United States. “Hotels do not put any sort of surveillance in guestrooms,” says Andrews. Under no circumstances is any type of camera allowed in any bedrooms or bathrooms.

Hospital rooms Because there are safety issues at hand, hospitals are allowed to install security cameras in patients’ rooms. Fujitsu even developed a camera that can recognize when a patient sits up or even has a restless night’s sleep. Check out these other 50 secrets hospitals are keeping from you.

There are cameras everywhere in hospitals across the land. In hospital entries, hallways, treatment areas, and even staff break rooms. And those cameras are being watched, or their recordings reviewed, by someone.

Eight states—Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington—have enacted laws or guidelines that allow residents of LTC facilities or their families to install cameras in a resident’s room to monitor the care provided.

HIPAA regulations should not preclude the use of video cameras in a nursing home setting, as long as the camera is owned and installed by the nursing home patient and/or his family members. However, while HIPAA doesn’t prevent cameras, this does not necessarily mean nursing homes have to allow them.

Bathrooms are nearly always considered an area where someone can expect privacy. Because of that, security cameras aren’t allowed in bathrooms. But security cameras can be allowed outside of bathrooms.

By law, anyone can be offered access to CCTV footage in which they appear, upon request. Any employee can ask to see footage of themselves, but cannot be granted access to CCTV footage of someone else. The officially-recognized way to request access is through a SAR, which an employer has to respond to within 40 days.

No, it is illegal to have cameras in restrooms. That’s why Walmart puts the restrooms up by the checkouts so the cashiers can keep an eye on them.

No, airplanes (commercial aviation) do not have cameras in the bathrooms, or as they are called, “lavatories”. That would be illegal. If your finger, “touches” the reflection of your finger, it only means that there isn’t a layer of thick glass over the reflective material.

Penal Code 647(j) is California’s invasion of privacy law, which makes it a crime for a person to view the inside of a bathroom via a camera. viewing a victim in a room or an area in which he/she has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in.

Generally speaking though, it is legal to record surveillance video with a hidden camera in your home or public place without the consent of the person you’re recording. However, there are some exceptions to that must be abided, or it becomes illegal.

Limits to Employee Monitoring. Generally, employers are not allowed to listen to or record conversations of their employees without the consent of the parties involved. Meanwhile, video cameras can be installed in areas only where there is no “reasonable expectation of privacy,” i.e., common work areas.

Yes, video surveillance of the open, non-private areas of the workplace, whether or not the employees are told about or know about the surveillance, is lawful.

It is legal to record someone in public, as long as they don’t have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”. The Wiretap Act protects communications that the individuals being recorded perceive as private. Whether one perceives a conversation as private largely depends on the context.

The basic rule to remember is that you cannot record conversations between your spouse and other parties without consent (knowledge) of at least one of the parties. Hiding a voice-activated recorder in their car, gym bag, or even in your own home to try to catch him or her with their paramour is illegal.

4 Steps to Take if Someone Posts Non-consensual Intimate Photos of You

1. File a police report. Local.
2. Get the photo taken off social media/website. Depending on where the initial photo/video was shared, each social media has their own avenue and protocol for how to report this.
3. Consult with an attorney.
4. Know your resources.

“The safeguards that are available under privacy laws in India against call recording by individuals are not clearly defined. There is no law which makes recording a call by an individual on their device illegal. “The concept of data protection and privacy are two separate things.