On February 6, 2014, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak inadvertently revealed that some showers in Sochi have "surveillance cameras pointed toward them". The New York Daily News reports that "The blunder happened when Dmitry Kozak was asked about conditions in hotels and the lack of water, the subjects of ongoing media criticism. Kozak suddenly became defensive and blurted: 'We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day'...Russian officials quickly shut down a potential deluge of followup questions on the peeping policy by hurrying Kozak away from the podium. There has been evidence in Sochi of Internet surveillance aimed at news media, but never before of visual surveillance inside hotel rooms."