law
16 Jun 2025

Phone use in gyms

From Nine To Noon, 9:40 am on 16 June 2025
02 June 2020, Berlin: A man runs on a treadmill at the John Reed Fitness Music Club in Prenzlauer Berg. Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by JENS KALAENE / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: JENS KALAENE

A large gym chain, Les Mills, is reminding it's clients in its regular newsletter about rules over using phones in the gym.

It follows the case of a parliamentary press secretary secretly recording sex workers and taking close ups of women's bodies at the gym.

But how easy is it for gyms to try to control phone use? Gehan Gunasekara is an Associate Professor at Auckland University specialising in privacy law.