A Welsh junior worker for Britain's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency was suspended this week over claims that cell phone video clips showing her having sex were seen by hundreds of DVLA workers.
The woman, whose name is being withheld from the press for now, is believed to have downloaded the clips to her cell phone and sent them to friends, only to have them seen by an estimated 300 fellow DVLA personnel within hours, according to the BBC.
"Nobody could quite believe what they were seeing. The pictures appeared to show her and her partner making love," an unnamed colleague told a Welsh newspaper. "They went from one camera phone to the next. I think at least 300 or so people had it on their mobile phones by the time it was stopped."
The DVLA is investigating the incident and reportedly told the mid-20s woman to stay home until the probe is finished. The agency's Swansea facility is believed to employ 6,000 people.
Computer and other electronic porn on the job has become a bristling subject in recent weeks. In early June, the British watchdog group the Audit Commission called for a crackdown on porn in the workplace after releasing a survey showing 52 percent of British workplace information technology abuse from 2001-2004 was tied to staffers accessing adult websites. The figure was 13 percent higher than the one revealed in a previous four-year survey.
That crackdown call followed May's so-called "octopus porn" incident, in which seven workers at a Dagenham, England Ford plant were suspended for watching an Internet video showing a naked woman engaged in sexual activity with an octopus.
In the United States, at the same time as the "octopus porn" incident, former University of Texas Health Science Center auditor Cynthia Davis sued the institution, claiming she was forced to resign after she blew the whistle on school employees watching Internet porn on the job two years ago.
Last week, former University of Nevada, Reno locksmith Charles Stricker, Jr., who charged his former boss retaliated for five years after he complained about computer and hard-copy porn images in the workplace, was awarded $209,315 by a federal jury.
