A woman who was caught on CCTV performing a sex act on a man in a lift has had her privacy complaint rejected by Ofcom after it was shown on television . The mother , who was drunk at the time , was seen in footage on Channel 4 show CCTV : Caught on Camera – Lift Watching , in a lift in a Southampton tower block . One clip showed , briefly , the complainant , Ms K , performing a sex act on a man . Show producers said she and the man 's faces were heavily blurred and neither of them were named . A woman who was caught on CCTV performing a sex act on a man in a lift has had her privacy complaint rejected by Ofcom . The mother , who was drunk at the time , was seen in footage on Channel 4 show CCTV : Caught on Camera , in a lift in a Southampton tower block ( stock image ) But the woman , who later became pregnant , complained that her loved ones were still able to recognise her and she claimed the stress caused by her embarrassment had prompted a premature labour . However , regulator Ofcom has ruled that the public interest in anti-social behaviour outweighed her expectation of privacy . The programme began with an montage of clips taken from the CCTV footage . Accompanying footage of Ms K performing a sex act on a man in a lift. , one CCTV operator said : 'Us humans , we are disgusting sometimes ' . Further on in the programme , more CCTV footage of Ms K in the lift was shown . This part of the programme began with the CCTV operators discussing the drunken behaviour that they witnessed , particularly on Friday and Saturday night , when a second CCTV operator said : 'Every Friday night , there will be couples going out of the lift dressed up . 'And they will be coming home at some point . 'And they 'll be coming home in a state , whether that 's drunk , angry , cuddly , loving , sex . It , there is always some sort of state ' . In response , Channel 4 said that this was not a private occasion , as it had occurred in a lift . CCTV footage of Ms K and a man entering a lift and then Ms K performing a sex act on him was shown . The CCTV operator then said that when people are having sex in a lift : 'they do n't give a s**t about the camera , they do n't care about the camera . He 's got his leg up and he 's as happy as Larry ' . The CCTV footage then showed the man leaving the lift and fastening up his trousers . A third CCTV operator was shown at this point admitting that she herself had been caught having sex in public . The Ofcom ruling said : 'Ms K complained that her privacy was unwarrantably infringed in the programme as broadcast because CCTV footage of her engaged in sexual activity with a man in a lift was included in the programme without her consent . 'Ms K 's face was obscured in the programme ; however , she said that friends and family had recognised her from the footage and that the programme had negatively affected her social relationships and her employment prospects . She said that the stress of being recognised in the programme had caused her to go into premature labour . Ms K also said that at the time the CCTV footage was filmed , she had been very drunk and that she had not been 'at the best point in her life ' . In response , Channel 4 said that from the outset of the CCTV : Caught on Camera series it paid careful attention to the issue of contributor privacy , but that this was not a private occasion , as it had occurred in a communal lift .
Clip aired on Channel 4 on CCTV : Caught on sky – Lift live . Programme featured a woman performing a nightclub act on a stool in a lift . She told Ofcom she was ' drunk at the bar ' and not in best place in her life . But regulator said she had no reasonable expectation of privacy in public .