A surveillance camera includes Wi-Fi cameras (including Nest Cam), nanny cameras, web cameras or baby monitors. The devices were hidden inside TVs, hair dryer holsters and electrical outlets.Īlso in March, an Airbnb guest in Miami found hidden cameras in his room, while in April, a New Zealand family discovered that their Airbnb host in Ireland was recording – and also livestreaming – footage of them.Īirbnb has policies in place about electronic surveillance devices: Hosts must indicate the presence of any surveillance camera in their home, whether it is recording actively, or even if its not turned on or hooked up. They did so with tiny wireless spy cameras set up in 42 motel rooms at 30 motels across South Korea, in 10 cities. In March, Seoul police arrested four people who allegedly filmed about 1,600 motel guests in the past year in various states of undress and having sex. This is disturbingly only the most recent horror story of traveling guests reporting that they were recorded. However, the incident is making potential Airbnb users nervous – especially because the man was an Airbnb superhost, a title given to hosts who, in Airbnb’s words, are experienced and seen as “a shining example for other hosts.” The home-sharing platform told Beijing Youth Daily that it removed the flat from apartment listings.

The guest then called the police, who found that the host had been filming guests since March, and arrested him.Īirbnb did not respond to a request for comment from Threatpost. “I checked carefully and found the line arrangement was different from the usual ones,” the woman told Beijing Youth Dailyin a recent interview.

After inspecting and unscrewing the router, the guest found that there was a digital memory card inside. The unfortunate guest told local news outlets that she worked in information security, and so was more vigilant than the average person when it came to always checking her hotel rooms for signs of surveillance devices. The guest, an unnamed woman who was staying in the Airbnb in eastern China last week, said she discovered the camera after spotting a light that looked unusual in the Wi-Fi router, according to local reports. An Airbnb “superhost” in China has been arrested after a guest staying in his house found a hidden camera recording her in the bedroom.

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