Calgary Police held an availability today to talk about the alarming find on social media today of a voyeuristic Twitter account.
The ‘CanadaCreep’ Twitter account, which over the span of one year has gone unnoticed and accumulated 17,000 followers, was shut down today by Twitter.
The account posted unconsented and secrecely captured pictures and videos of Calgary women’s clothed breasts, butts and genital areas, some including videos takes up women’s skits while they walked.
Local Calgary bloggers Crackmacs posted a tip their Facebook page which blew up and caught the attention of many Calgarians and The Calgary Police.
Someone posted this on my FB page. He caught his own face in one of the videos. You’re fucked @CanadaCreep pic.twitter.com/vA2HVB36vX
— Crackmacs (@Crackmacs) June 13, 2017
The system works #yyc pic.twitter.com/RgaSZwauYK
— Crackmacs (@Crackmacs) June 13, 2017
The Calgary Police Service says they’re looking for the suspect and held a media availability this afternoon to address the issue.
Staff Sergeant Cory Dayley of the Calgary Police Service Cyber/Forensics Unit says “it’s alarming that it’s actually taken this long to come to the attention of the public.”