Marketing | Business

Sony’s See-Through Camera Disaster Cost Them $100 Million

How a company retroactively fixed their massive PR problem when a near-infrared camera made clothing transparent

Sean Kernan
Published in
4 min readApr 30, 2021

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The CEO of Sony cameras was sitting reading his newspaper when a subordinate came into the room carrying a copy of…

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