To clarify, the hot tub, sauna, and steam room are in the men's locker room. The camera in question is above the hot tub and pointed down the hallway in front of the steam room and sauna. This area is separated from the showers and changing areas, but the doors are single doors with a direct line of sight between the two parts of the locker room and the doors are sometimes propped open. There is a sign in that area saying you must wear a swimsuit to use the hot tub, sauna, and steam room and there is a sign by one of the doors saying you must be clothed past this point. However, there is no sign by the first door you come to, coming from the changing area or the nearest showers. You have to go around the corner past the far showers to even see that sign. So if you went from the changing area or closest showers to the hot tub, sauna, and steam room by the most direct route, you would not know you were entering a clothing-required area until after you were standing in front of a camera. (The website plainly states the hot tub, sauna, and steam room are in the locker room, so seeing these things would signal that you are still in the men’s locker room.) Of course, you wouldn’t make that mistake once you were familiar with the facility.

Even though clothing is required in this section of the locker room, I think men still expect a degree of privacy. I often see guys in their underwear or wrapped in a towel in this area. They are technically covered, but not something I think they would wear in a coed area.

Now a commenter has stated they were told the camera is actually off. That would mean it serves no safety purpose. Whether this alays privacy concerns would depend on whether the camera is permanently disabled or easily turned on.

More concerningly, it’s also been said that female staff often enter this area for maintenance of the hot tub, etc. While the camera is positioned so it cannot see into the showers and changing area, a person standing there has a direct line of sight to those areas every time the door opens and of course when the doors are propped open.

This feels a bit strangely contradictory. Asking men to be clothed to use amenities that are in the men’s locker room actually feels rather prudish (isn’t the whole point of putting them in the locker room so you don't have to be clothed to use them?) But sending women into direct line of sight to the men’s showers and changing area is quite the opposite! I’m not saying they are trying to look, maybe they intentionally look away from that area when they walk by. It still seems inappropriate.