Entries Tagged 'Hidden Cameras'

Here’s another case that demonstrates just how easy it is to violate someone’s privacy with a cell phone camera. While the devices are generally banned from locker rooms and other areas where people may be undressing, these enterprising high school students in San Diego demonstrated that anyone wearing a skirt is susceptible to the video voyeurism exploit known as “upskirting”.

A group of Hoover High School students is getting expelled because they used a cell phone to record underneath a teacher’s skirt and then shared the video among students, said the president of the San Diego Education Association, which represents teachers.

Not sure if this was a “hot for teacher” situation or these kids just wanted to humiliate the woman, but I’m sure they accomplished the latter. The ironic thing is the district would not discuss the incident or the punishment meted to the students, citing privacy concerns. How nice for them.

The Washington Post tracks the life of a Realtor for one day to show the multitude of ways we are watched in the 21st century.

The tracking of Kitty Bernard begins shortly after she wakes up. All through the 56-year-old real estate agent’s day, from walking in her building’s lobby to e-mailing friends and shopping and working, the watchful eye of technology records her movements and preferences.

You are watched pretty much every waking hour, even if you don’t leave the house (thanks to the Internet). It’s an elightening read.

Via Bruce Schneier.

The proliferation of cheap surveillance technology means this type of sad story is being repeated all over the place, and will only increase in the future. It’s actually amazing this pervert got caught.

Brabson was also an assistant swim coach at the school when detectives say he set up a video camera in his office and asked girls to change clothes. Carey claims both his daughters are on the tapes. They’ve since graduated.

Of course there is now a lawsuit. But the scary thing is, the law is only effective if the surveillance is detected. And even then, what’s been taken cannot truly be restored.

Did you hear the one about the fire marshal who installed smoke detectors containing surveillance cameras to keep an eye on his wife’s activities after he moved out of the house?

You don’t have to be a fire fighting professional to gain access to these fake smoke detectors… they are available at any spy shop.

Kari Odermann said she believed the recording devices were hidden in smoke detectors installed throughout the house, including the bathroom. Frank Odermann denied that a camera had been placed in the bathroom, but he admitted during the course of the lawsuit that he had installed recording devices without Kari Odermann’s knowledge.

“We now know that Frank recorded from at least three cameras within the residence, one of which was located in the master bedroom,” O’Connor said in a court document filed recently.

Fire Marshal Frank has agreed to settle the lawsuit his wife brought against him for $50,000 just before it went to trial.

To combat these type of hidden surveillance cameras, use camera detection technology.

Here’s the latest low-cost way for just about anyone to surreptitiously record video of you doing just about anything. This type of technology is the reason why tiny counter-surveillance tools will be as common as the cell phone in the decades to come.

Got someone you want to keep track of via video but you don’t want them to know you’re keeping track of them? With a mini spy cam like this one, you could tuck it just about anywhere and record everyone and everything that’s going on around you. Now you can have that James Bond feeling yourself. Offered by UK site Spymaster, the camera “weighs only 10 grams and will send quality color images to any video device, up to 100 metres/300ft away.”

Fight back with camera detection technology.

Via Home Security Gadgets and Reviews.