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A New Zealand family was shocked to find a camera hidden in the smoke alarm of their Airbnb during a vacation in Ireland, which the father of the clan discovered as he was connecting his cell phone to the Wi-Fi.
[...] "He scanned that device's ports and found the live video feed. We were all watching ourselves on his mobile phone," Barker said of the horrifying find. The camera offered a view of the living room, dining and kitchen area.
Related:
How to Scan Your Airbnb for Hidden Cameras
Should we be searching for hidden spy cameras in Airbnbs and hotels?
[This seems to be an ongoing issue for Airbnb. Have other Soylentils used the platform, and if so have you found hidden monitoring devices? - Ed]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @07:48PM
Family decides to stay in stranger's house, conversely guy lets strange family live in his house. It is unregulated, unprotected and (if you come into the political eye) good for a prison term if you are the offerer. Would you be a hitchhiker or pick one up?
And so you have creeps watching cams they have installed in their house on one hand, and buttsex orgy porno productions filmed on your couch on the other hand.
In this case it even seems like the cameras were installed for the owner's protection. I didn't read that there were cameras in the bathrooms and bedrooms, only in the common areas of the house.