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If an employee at a hotel planted secret cameras and...

If an vacation rental landlord planted secret cameras and...

Bad news all around.



You can go to jail for having a surveillance system in your own home: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-doctor-guilty-of-making-se...


Hidden surveillance of the unsuspecting in restrooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms -anywhere where people can expect to have privacy- should of course be illegal. Nannycams in living rooms and other "public" rooms in private homes probably should be legal for obvious reasons.


"I have bad news for you."

Yes, secret cameras can get the host in trouble, but poke around at airbnb listings and you'll see cases where everyone reports highly visible internal cameras.

I'm not saying its good.




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