You Are Being Watched!

Here is another set of information about privacy and security.

I have been posting a series of information about tips and ideas with some of our personal devices and home technology for the last couple of days. I hope you are not bombarded by this but at least it has helped you somehow.

Three days ago I posted information on how someone could be spying on us without our awareness.

In today’s post I will be tackling a similar post but this time it is about hidden cameras.

These days it seems that cameras are almost everywhere. Large malls and even small business establishments have video recording systems installed or Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV).

The reason for doing so is obvious, to make sure everything is secure and documented.

However there are establishments that take advantage of the cameras capability and use it to monitor people without their knowledge.

Examples of these establishments are apartments, hostels and or public restrooms. They are using hidden cameras to spy on people and for whatever their purpose is, it is against the law.

Cameras these days can be as small as the needle. Below is the camera I have extracted from a broken Smartphone.

This is the smallest so far I have ever extracted from old phones. It is so small that it can fit inside a pen.

It means it can be hidden to anything like clocks, picture frames, smoke alarm, key chain, Bluetooth speaker or anything that may act as a display in a room.

You may want to consider checking some stuff for possible hidden cams the next time you check in during your next vacay.

Before you freak out below are some tips on how to check if there are hidden cams installed inside lodging houses.

Hidden camera detector

You may want to purchase a device that can detect hidden cameras. There is a lot of this in several online stores and it costs more than $10. This may seem helpful but it will just add to stuff in your purse. But if you are more concerned about your privacy you are always free to choose whether you want to be secured or not.

Your Smartphone is camera detector

Yes you read it right. Just open the camera of any type of Smartphone you have and you can start searching and detecting hidden cameras.

How is this possible?

The truth is it’s not really the camera that your phone camera can detect. It is the infrared (IR) LED light it detects. All digital cameras have IR sensors that have a very high frequency range so infrared emitted by IR diodes can be detected by these sensors even if they are invisible to our eyes.

Photos below are actual demonstrations I made for you. Just in case you have no idea of how it works.

So the next time you enter a private room, you may want to test and check if there are hidden cams installed. Here is what you should do upon entering the room. Don’t turn off the lights first. Open your phone's camera, which I know for sure you always hold, turn off the flash if it is on then start scanning the entire room. If your camera can see a flashing light in the dark, be alert because that could be a possible IR LED of a hidden camera.

You can test your phone camera detecting an IR with your TVs remote control. Open your phone's camera and then place TVs remote control in front of it and press any key. You will see the IR LED flashing.

Note that this tip may not be working with tiny cameras because they don’t have IR LED exposed. But there are other ways to check if hidden cameras are installed inside a hotel room. Mostly they are installed in the best angle of the room. You may want to check valuable items on the desk too, and then check the mirrors and even AC sockets. If you see tiny holes in an unusual spot, there is a possible hidden camera installed on it.

This may sound ridiculous but if you care about your privacy you may want to consider this practice whenever you are checking in places far from your home. You are not just saving yourself but your friends and loved ones too.

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

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