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TEACHERS are being secretly filmed in class, with students posting the clips on the internet.

The worldwide trend has alarmed Victorian educators worried about invasion of privacy.

The Australian Education Union is investigating the legal rights of teachers being filmed .

The Victorian Law Reform Commission may also investigate the practice as part of its review into the use of surveillance in public.

Global footage features teachers being teased by students, losing their tempers and being subjecting to pranks, including one in which a teacher had his pants pulled down by a student while facing away from his class to use a whiteboard.

'Throw something at his head'

The videos are being posted on sites including YouTube and MySpace (parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au).

In one clip posted on YouTube - and said to have been filmed at a Melbourne secondary school -- a teacher is secretly filmed while standing at the front of a rowdy classroom.

The class laughts as one student yells out to another to "get something and throw it at his (teacher's) head".

AEU Victorian branch spokesman Meredith Peace said she was concerned about the inappropriate use of technologies by students.

Ms Peace said secretly filming teachers was an invasion of privacy.

"One of our industrial people is looking at the legality of it," she said.

Spying on staff in workplace toilets and change rooms is banned from today, under strict new Victorian privacy laws.

Attorneys-general across the country are considering whether to introduce uniform workplace privacy laws.

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