SpyCam Story #662 - This Week In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.

General

OH - Cop without pants arrested for unspecified voyeurism. Cover up.

NY - Apple store spycam'er gets exposure. Life 'intimates' art. 

OH - Mr. Nicely indited on video voyeurism charges. No relation to Mr. Rogers.

OH - Couple visits for weekend. Man spycam's host. Wife and host snatch cell.

Canada - Landlord spycam'ing renters.

UK - "recording another person doing a private act for the purpose of sexual gratification"

Hotels

FL - Man cams Hooters International Swimsuit contestants changing in hotel. Busted.

CA - Hotel worker resigns after admitting hiding a spycam in a public bathroom. Walks.

Showers & Changing Rooms

AR - Old Navy changing room spycam'er nailed at Starbucks. Police checking phone.

SC - KOA campground showers target of man with cell phone cam.

IN - Another guy with a cell phone in a dressing room.

LA - Pencam in women's showers at gym. Judge approves class action suit.

UK - Man found guilty of voyeurism in a swimming pool changing room.

Bathrooms

WA - Fish hatchery manager/bathroom spycam'er sentenced. Employees smelled something...

ID - Teen caught spycaming restroom uses skateboard as weapon when confronted. Dude? 

FL - Another guy hiding a cell phone in the bathroom.

UK - Man admits to putting cell phone in cafe's women's bathroom air freshener.

The Tanning Guys...

AR - New charges in the tanning man bedroom spycam case.

FL - Sets up tanning booth in his barn. Charges $2. Now headed to prison.

Off their meds...

RI - X-Ray tech sees license lifted for taking exam room video of 16-year old girl.

OH - Ultrasound tech convicted of spycam'ing females at workplace. Three charges dismissed.

Canada - Female nursing home employee skates on phone voyeurism. Not covert enough.

AR - Medical center cell phone spycam'er pleads guilty.
NV - Hospital worker get 1-year for filming co-workers in bathroom.

"Trusted Agents"

MS - Traveling preacher accused of videotaping women without them knowing visits court.

LA - Youth group sleepover spycam'er with 40 counts sought reduced bail. Denied.

Wales - Former scoutmaster, school custodian convicted for locker room spying.

ID - Ex-teacher jailed - Spycam'ed high school girls showering during FFA convention.

OH - Attorney school theater accused of voyeurism challenges search warrant.

Upskirters

WA - 14-year old girl stings bathroom phone spycam'er with her phone. He's washed up.

ID - Bottom-shelf shopper arrested for "upskirt" shooting in multiple stores. Think neckbolts.

WA - Two guys upskirting in stores nabbed.

SC - Police seek drug store upskirter suspect. See him on the store's surveillance video.

OH - Man wanted for upskirtering ten in Ohio found in Puerto Rico.

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We can not guarantee you will never be on the wrong end of a voyeurism law suit. However, we are sure our services will pay for themselves many times over when damages are assessed. These days, if you're in business, you must proactively protect your employees and the visiting public's privacy. ~Kevin

SpyCam Story #664 - This Month In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied. 

"What's up Doc?"

VA - Foot doctor hides restroom spycam in box of latex gloves. Employee fingers it.
LA - Gynecologist documents work too well. 186 counts of video voyeurism.
NY - Urologist arrested for upskirting. 
CA - Plastic surgeon for celebrities with spycam in dressing room.

The Usual Suspects...
ID - Nature lover films women using campground shower. Admits to dozens of films.
ID - Cell phone + tissue box + employee restroom...
ID - Man has pleads guilty to video voyeurism.
CT - Cell phone + tissue box + bathroom... 
CT - Subway sandwich employee stuffs spycam into insulation under the bathroom sink.

KY - Man charged with placing spy cam in Wal-Mart men's room. Hold the KY jokes. 

CO - Man hiding in Yoga festival porta-potty tank pleads not guilty. Try insanity next time.

AR - Hidden camera in girl's bedroom. A dolt claims, "to see if she was having sex."
AR - Tanning bed spycam'er pleads guilty. 
FL - Man gets 10 years for spycam in bedrooms and evidence tampering.
LA - Ex-security guard - 42 counts of voyeurism. Hid spycams in restrooms at his building.
MI - Man jailed for taping sexual encounter between himself and three women.

UK - Landlord with clothes hook spycam hung by his own petard.
UK - Married vicar suspended after arrest on suspicion of voyeurism.

Canada - Swimming instructor puts spycam in staff-only locker room. 
Canada - Clothing store dressing room cam-man turns himself in. 
Canada - Another clothing store cam-man.
Austria - Artist installs one-way mirror in cafe. Peeks from mens restroom into ladies room. 

School Daze...
KY - A real McCoy caught upskirting at college.
NJ - Chief custodian at Catholic high school + 8 cameras - Arrested.
CT - Cell phone + college co-ed showers... What could possibly go wrong? 
IN - Janitor + spycam + locker room.
IN - Middle School science teacher + spycam + women's faculty restroom at the school. 
OH - Middle School teacher + spycam + 2 female teachers in teachers-only bathroom.
OH - High school coach + camera in Boy's Locker Room, pleads not guilty. 
CT - School psychologist + camera + house guest.

Darwin Awards...
AR - Wife finds video of underage girl on his/her computer. He filmed himself setting it up.
Canada - Likes to watch women sleep. Voyeurism no, B&E yes. Cell phone left behind.

UK - Male nurse arrested for spycaming at Stonyhurst College found hanged at home.

SpyCam Story #663 - This Month In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.

School Daze...

NJ - Locker room spycam defense?!?! - it never endangered the welfare of any child. 

VA - Registrar's Office spycam defense - hormone imbalance.

OH - School teacher charged - spycam'ing two female teachers in teachers-only bathroom.

WA - High School sleepover spycam'er pleads guilty.

CA - U of T - iPhone spotted in bathroom stall - man charged with voyeurism and mischief.

Charges Laid...

CT - Busted - bedroom spycam'er filmed four female partners.

CA - Dusted - House guest finds video camera recording in a powder room.

LA -  Trusted - Bedroom cam & bathroom cam transmitted wireless to recorder.

MT - Adjusted - Former jailer who spycam'ed a pool changing room charged with burglary.

UK - Lusted - Ex-council member charged - leisure centres, holiday camp and dance studio. 

Men at Work...
UK - Employee used a camera disguised as a pen to film female staff in the toilets.

WA - Playhouse dressing room spycam - closing argument - not for sexual gratification.

GA - Judge finds 'peeping preacher' guilty on 13 counts of video voyeurism.

FL - Mirror ripped from the fitting room wall reveals two hidden cameras, one still recording. 

ID - Man charged - iPhone, recording, hidden in a tissue box in the employee restroom. 

CA - Owner placed camera in his hardware store staff washroom.

CT - Subway employee placed under sink camera in unisex bathroom. 

LA - Gynecologist charged - secretly photographedthe genitals of his patients... 186 times

Only You Can Pervert...

FL - Park employee kept eye on bathroom with iPhone - victim chases, snags plate, nailed.

WA - Park employee arrested, accused of recording a teenage girl in a park restroom. 

Darwin Awards to...

CT - Man admits to 4 photos of woman in next shower... 2 turned out to be of his own hand.

UK - Man uses USB stick camera to film woman - proof - shot himself while setting it up.

IN - Man hides iPod in girlfriend's bathroom - proof - shot himself while hiding it.

UT - Wife finds upskirt pix on husband's cell - calls cops - proof - shot himself while filming.

OH - Spycam'er uses clock radio, camera hidden within - poof - shot himself... with a gun!

The Tanning Guys...

AR - 16-year-old boy was arrested - cam'ed a woman after she got out of a tanning bed. 

AR - Man charged - cam'ing girls using his tanning bed, then tampering with the evidence.

AR - Tanning salon manager booked on suspicion of voyeurism.

(Arkansas and tanning salon pervs. Weird.)

IN - Fox in henhouse - Stephan Fox pleaded guilty to taping women in tanning salon.

SpyCam Story #656 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. While I will continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, I won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

SC - Teen in school Girl's Room with camera.

OR - Man in theater dressing room with camera.
IN - Former Notre Dame assistant registrar - video in bathrooms and dressing rooms.

WA - Missing Susan Powell's husband, and his father, video voyeurism.

SC - Two indictments in Myrtle Beach on voyeurism charges.

NJ - Rutgers spycam trial continues.

IN - Shoecam man sentensed to six months.

ID - Sister-in-law spycam'er appeals.

NC - Middle school teacher spycam'ing bathroom.

WA - High school teacher charged with voyeurism resigns.

ID - Man charged with video voyeurism; no details.

IN - High school custodian spycam's Boy's locker room.

FL - Man charged with through-the-bedroom-window video voyeurism.

UK - Camera in business washroom charged filed.

NY - Man spycam'ing in local tanning salon.

OH - Man videos woman in shower, three times.

IN - New trial date for swim coach accused of locker room filming.

FL - New video voyeur legislation making progress.

NM - Spycam in business bathroom; allegedly installed by owner.

SpyCam Story #661 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.
 

Australia - A Sydney bus driver has been jailed for filming up the skirts of schoolgirls.

CT - IT employee fired, his company iPhone found live-streaming video of bathroom.

UK - 14-year-old girl in the shower notices shave box with ‘suspicious looking hole’ in it.

UK - Man with spy pen strikes again, and again...

LA - Rambo slams man 12-years for recording video of nude women tanning.

UK - Camera found in the staff lavatories at day nursery. Employee arrested.

Canada - Man who used cellphone to peep has avoided jail.

UK - Triple karate world champion (and spycam'er) has sentence chopped.
WI - Bedroom C.B. DeMille gets 90-days in jail, on weekends.
CT - Man accused of hiding cameras in public men's rooms returning to court.
TN - Evangelist pleads guilty in Tennessee... Charges in Texas and Mississippi next.
WA - Second dressing room spycam case this year at Olympia Goodwill store.
FL - Motel restroom spycam'er re-arrested.
CT - Weird. Spycam'ed mother of girl he'd been convicted of spying on six years ago.
UK - Victim trying on bras captures her spycam'er for police.
Canada - Dumb man using smart phone.
WA - Steven Powell, father-in-law of missing Utah mom Susan Powell, sentenced.
IL - Government not libel for secret videotape of employee changing into uniform.

SpyCam Story #550 - Take the Poll

Plug "SpyCam" into Google and you get about 2,020,000 hits!
Not bad for a word that is not even in dictionary.com

Whole Web sites are devoted to selling them.
• spycameras.com
• my-spycam.com
• spycamwarehouse.com

SpyCams are selling... BIGTIME.
• Many Web sites offer "How to spycam" instructions.
• A few offer "How spycams are detected" information.
• Some spycam videos get posted on the Internet. (NSFW)

...and once in while, we read about some inept TVpeepcreep who gets caught and prosecuted.

Given what you now know, what do you think the ratio is between the people who get caught spycam'ing ...and the people who do it but never get caught?
Let us know via our anonymous on-line Poll, in the right column.

If you have ever been the victim of a spycam please tell us about it in the Other: section of the Poll.

SpyCam Story #659 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

AZ - School principal and assistant caught passionately kissing via student cell phone.
Australia - Father jailed for hidden camera in the bathroom where his daughters showered.
CA - Maintenance man at Sears arrested for allegedly filming women in changing rooms.
Internet - Spycam Magazine - A new magazine focusing on hidden and spycam products.

SC - Cellphone camera in a toilet roll filmed female employees. Security guard charged.

FL - Teacher accused of using a pen camera to video girls changing for gym.
UK - Man rigged up a spy camera to secretly watch a teenage girl in the bath.
IN - Notre Dame pen SpyCam Man escapes jail time.
UK - Man convicted of using spycam pen in toilet.
WA - Voyeurism evidence against father-in-law of missing mother Susan Powell admitted.
CA - York University - At least six incidents of voyeurism this year on campus.
ID - Former high school teacher made plea deal he secretly videotaped students
FL  - Man accused of cellphone video of women in Target, Walmart and Publix.
IN - Mom files half-million dollar lawsuit against a former high school janitor accused of secretly filming her son and 41 other boys in a school locker room
UK - Web designer who spied on three young women given a community order.
IN - High school basketball player charged. Cell phone video in the locker room.
MS - Complainant found videos of herself fully naked of her taking a bath on computer.
TN - A 33-year-old Baptist youth evangelist investigated in three states for video voyeurism.

Korea - Molka Means Spycam - Government Creates a Handbook for Women

The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Monday distributed guidelines on how to respond to spycam crimes for victims and law enforcement officers, amid a growing epidemic of spycam porn in the country. 

Divided into two parts -- for civilians and police officers -- the handbook was designed to raise awareness of what constitutes secondary damage to victims of spycam porn and how police officers and victims can handle such cases, according to the Seoul city government.

For example, the guidelines recommend that victims secure evidence -- such as a hidden camera -- if possible and remember the perpetrator’s appearance. If illegally filmed videos have already been distributed, the advice is to copy the links and obtain screenshots. Then the victims should report the situation to the police and ask the website or social media companies to remove the videos, the handbook says. more

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The (K-Pop) scandal magnifies the proliferation of hidden camera porn in South Korea — an issue which drove 22,000 women to the streets last June in the largest women’s demonstration in the nation’s history. Known as molka, meaning “spycam”, hidden camera porn has become an increasingly visible issue in South Korea, as the distribution of footage from secret, tiny cameras — often depicting women in sexual or intimate circumstances without their consent — has grown in recent years. From 2013 to 2017, police estimate nearly 6,000 cases of spycam porn each year. more

SpyCam Story #500 - 500 Failures & Counting

Welcome to the SpyCam Story 500 milestone.
Here, we feature news stories about video spying.

This Scrapbook feature started when a security director asked me, "How can I show my boss electronic eavesdropping is real and I am not just being paranoid?" Interesting problem. There are no 'illegal eavesdropping statistics' to quote.

Keep in mind, the media only reports spying failures; the one's who got caught. Successful spying is totally invisible. Like commercial airline stories; you never read about the successful landings.

The solution to the security director's conundrum...
• Track sales of eavesdropping devices.
• Track eavesdropping failures as reported by the media.
• Factor in... Most spycam, bug and wiretap failures are handled privately. They never make it to the lawsuit level, and media attention.• Factor in... Not all media stories make it to my attention.
• Factor in... Many spycam stories are in such bad taste I exclude them.
Now, we see the tip of the spyberg.

Security directors use this proof to substantiate their Eavesdropping Detection Audit budgets.

And now (drum roll)...
SpyCam Story #500
Extortionography - From Winehouse to the Big HouseUK - The man who sold video footage to a London tabloid showing Amy Winehouse engaged in what appeared to be drug use was sentenced to jail on Friday... Johnny Blagrove, and his girlfriend, Cara Burton, had filmed Ms. Winehouse, without her knowledge and sold the footage to The Sun for about $75,000. Mr. Blagrove and Ms. Burton admitted that they had offered to supply drugs to Ms. Winehouse and other celebrities. The police said that the couple had kept a list of celebrities they planned to record taking drugs. A judge sentenced Mr. Blagrove to two years in prison; Ms. Burton was ordered to perform two years’ community service. (more) 

SpyCam Story #657 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

CA - Man spying in college Men's Restroom- Low tech, using mirror.

NJ - Jury gets case in Rutgers webcam spying trial.

Canada - Man charged with voyeurism in Halifax has waived his right to a bail hearing.

LA - Man faces 23 more counts of video voyeurism and child pornography.

LA - Guard's coat-hook cams in 2 office ladies restroom and on dumpster at Marti Gras.

UT - Man tapes encounter with BYU male student and tried to extort money for silence.

UK - Teacher secretly filmed women and kids, many locations – including Botanical Gardens.

Canada - Pen spycam captures woman swim teacher in changing room.

Canada - City sweeps all the change rooms of all the swimming pools for staff and citizens.

OH - Park ranger indicted - accused of placing an iPod on record mode in a restroom.

UT - Man charged with voyeurism - allegedly set up cameras in estranged wife’s bedroom.

MA - Man arraigned for cell phone spycaming in YMCA girl's locker room. 

NV - School police use hidden cameras, catch teacher's aide roughing two students.

FL - Video voyeurism bill passes House and Senate; goes to Gov. Rick Scott. 

MS - Mississippi bill would make voyeurism a felony... but only if victim is under 16.

Australia - Former lawyer jailed for indecently filming boys with hidden cameras.

IL - Man taped employees of local restaurant using commodes in employees' bathroom.

ID - Man indited on video voyeurism - woman unable to resist due to being drugged.

UT - Previously convicted spycam'er at University of Utah re-arrested.

IN - Former Notre Dame office employee pleds guilty - pen cam in women's restroom.

LA - Man in Pecanland Mall men's room looking for nuts with cell cam.

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teaches the basic investigative skills necessary to identify and detect covert spy cameras. 

 

It also provides a complete due diligence strategy to help organizations protect their employees, customers and visitors against this privacy invasion. 

 

By taking a pro-active approach to “the video voyeur in the workplace problem" the organization also mitigates the risk of expensive lawsuits, damaging publicity and loss of good will.

In addition to the forensic training, the student receives a 25-page course text which includes a strong Recording in the Workplace policy template, a simple Inspection Log form and links to additional information.

Upon completing the course, the student will be able to conduct a professional inspection without the need for expensive instrumentation. Should an organization want to invest in instrumentation (useful for large scale inspections) links to these items are provided in the course text.

SPYCAM DETECTION TRAINING is primarily useful for:

• security managers,
• facilities managers,
• store managers,
• security officers,
• private investigators,
• landlords,
• real estate management companies,
• targets of activist groups,
• and businesses which invite the public into their locations.

Recognizing and detecting spy cameras is also a valuable skill for:

• law enforcement personnel,
• security management students,
• and the general public wishing to protect themselves against video voyeurism.

The course is structured to give the student:

• a full understanding of the video voyeur problem,
• a written policy which provides deterrence, leverage, and shows due diligence in court,
• an understanding of the different types of spy cameras and how to identify them,
• instruction on how to plan and execute a proper inspection,
• and instruction on what to do if a camera is found and how to handle the evidence.

The course takes about an hour to complete.

Spy cameras are inexpensive and readily available via the Internet and local spy shops. Every child and adult is a potential target. Business especially have a duty to protect the people using their expectation of privacy areas.

Although SPYCAM DETECTION TRAINING focuses heavily on protecting workplace environments, there is a greater good. By taking this course you will be able to use what you have learned to protect yourself and your family during your everyday travels. The effect is cumulative. As more people take this course, opportunities for video voyeurs decreases. 

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SpyCam Story #660 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

OH - Woman catches spycam'er, takes his phone, calls police, punches and detains him. 

NJ - Student who used a webcam to spy on gay roommate sentenced to 30 days in jail. 

FL - Home theater installer charged with video voyeurism.

TN - Man guilty of phone'caming Miss Tennessee in tanning booth.

Canada - Man facing 28 charges for voyeurism, and writing obscene notes on stalls.

WA - Steve Powell convicted of 14 counts of voyeurism.

AR - Trial delayed... video camera where several teenage girls came to use a tanning bed.

FL - Deputy arrested for taking photos of naked woman, sent to ex-huband and daughter. 

FL - (Ironic) Store CCTV records man putting cell phone underneath the victim's dress.

IN - Pastor charged with placing two air freshener spycams in women's room stalls.

Canada - No bail for man accused of five counts of voyeurism. 

KY - (Dumb) Two students busted for upskirting video of teacher. Posted it on YouTube.

SC - Tanning salon worker faces 3rd charge of voyeurism.

FL - Another Florida upskirter sentenced. Also caught on store CCTV.

OH - The Doctor is out. Charged with three counts of voyeurism and more.

WA - Playhouse employee allegedly spycam'ed an actress undressing in staff bathroom.

SC - Security guard arrested. Caught taping female co-workers in a bathroom.

IN - Former Notre Dame employee gets probation for pen-cam in women's bathroom.

FL- Teacher charged with hiding 3 pen-cams where female students change for gym.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/05/04/2131140/capital-playhouse-employee-charged.html#storylink=cpy

SpyCam Story #404 - Q-SpyCam Software

Remember SpyCam Story #400?
This may be how it happened...

"Ever wanted to spy on someone or something when you cannot be present. This program (Q Spycam) turns your mobile into a cool spy cam. All you have to do is run it and place it in the location you wish to monitor. Then just enter the Website address displayed on the mobile using a computer and you will see what your phone can see instantly. You can monitor what is happening from any location in the world!" (more)

SpyCam Story #658 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

Azerbaijan - Sex video used to blackmail Azerbaijani journalist.
UK - Garage ‘spies at the pumps’ could cut off fuel supply for uninsured driver. 

IL - Cubs install cameras in their minor-league stadiums...One team official called it “Spycam"

Canada - Two women charged with voyeurism...photo'ed man using cell and shared.

Canada - Man with hidden camera who filmed sex with unsuspecting women sentenced.

Canada - Scouts ex-leader faces child pornography charges.

AR - Middle school student faces charge of video voyeurism.

UK - Dentist arrested over ‘voyeurism’.

OH - Woman confronted suspect over cellphone videos at tanning salon.

SC - Man accused of placing a video recorder his bathroom during St. Patrick's Day party.  

IN - Child porn charges filed over camera found hidden in high school boys locker room.

FL - Man accused of using a camera pen to capture images of a woman in her bathroom. 

FL - Gov. Scott signs video voyeurism bill.

RI - URI basketball player charged with video voyeurism. Also wanted by Florida police.

LA - Security Guard Gets More Charges In Video Voyeurism Case.

RI - Video voyeurism reports on the rise.

NC - Stepfather jailed for voyeurism attempt. Cameras were hidden in teen girl's room.

TX - Traveling evangelist accused of filming in church bathrooms. Three states investigating.

MA - Man recorded teen, mother in bathroom.

UK - Man alleged to have filmed women using the bathroom gets court date.

Canada - Uni. of Waterloo employee caught using his iPhone to take videos pleads guilty.

NJ - Security specialist loses Top Secret clearance over underskirt videos.

SC - Employee discovers camera attached to a urinal in men's bathroom at a textile plant.

Woman Discovers Spycam in Her Bedroom... (then the action starts)

Ms. Wu, age 26, is suing her former roommate, identified by his last name Lin, for installing a spycam in her bedroom...

Ms. Wu noticed that there was a large black trashbag that didn’t belong to her, stuffed into the space above her closet. Inside, she discovered a camera, and a wire that ran from the camera across the hall into her roommate’s bedroom.

Ms. Wu waited for her roommate, Mr. Lin, to return home from work before confronting him about the camera.

Mr. Lin denied that he’d put a spycam in Ms. Wu’s room, but broke down her door to steal the camera back and packed up his computer equipment.

Ms. Wu, while attempting to stop him from leaving with the evidence, was thrown from the moving car. Ms. Wu said she’d still file charges against him for the spycam, despite the lack of evidence, and would also be filing a vehicular assault charge.  (more with video report)

This Week in Spycam News

AZ - A Phoenix-based American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to five years of probation for taking videos of men and boys using public restrooms. more

WA - Ex-South Seattle College director Gene Baker 52 was arrested last Tuesday after a teenage tenant of his told police that he had planted a camera in an alarm clock in her bedroom and that it had captured footage of her in various states of dress. more

Japan - An analysis of 406 patients who visited a sex addiction clinic here for treatment for camera voyeurism showed that they took 1,000 peeping shots on average before seeking medical help, a clinic official reported. more

S. Korea - Police recently busted a website that was used to share pornographic pictures -- including spycam porn -- arresting the suspected owner and booking 86 others without detention. more

UK - A man who took covert video footage of young women in a state of undress has been jailed for six months and placed on the sex offenders register. Jonathan Thomas Watson, 21, from Harrogate, videoed one woman as she was getting changed in a cubicle at Knaresborough Swimming Pool...Watson filmed six other females at a property in Knaresborough using similar covert means. more

FL - Investigators say a Florida teacher confessed to secretly videotaping a high school student as she changed her shirt. more

S. Korea - After a months-long investigation into Yang Jin-ho, the owner of the nation's two biggest file sharing sites, police have confirmed the existence of a million-dollar cartel for the production and distribution of spycam porn videos. Apart from owning WeDisk and Filenori, file sharing platforms where spycam clips and revenge porn were circulated, police found Yang had a hand in virtually every stage of the profitable operation. more

New SpyCam App for Android Phones and Tablets

via droidforums.net...
The new spycam app by "dooblou", SECuRET SpyCam, makes you an instant gum shoe! 

There are maybe some not so ethical uses for this, but then again this app would make it easy to see who is stealing your juice out of the office cooler, or what exactly the babysitter is doing with your kid. 

The app turns any Android phone or tablet camera as well as a remote camera into your very own motion triggered spycam. With this app your device will capture stills or video when activated by any motion within its field of view and then either save or email the photo or video. 


 
This app has apparently already caught several criminals in the act of stealing cars, and breaking into homes. 

You don't have to use your phone you can use this app to control a laptops webcam or another device camera with the use of livestream. 

The app includes disguise mode and touch screen locking so your phone won't be detected, advanced settings to tweak performance and timings, ability to choose between the front and back cameras, choice of video and photo resolutions including resolutions photos and high def videos, quick start mode and more. 

Pro version is $4.49, and there is a Demo version so you can see how it works before buying. (more) 

Why do I mention it?
So you will know what you're up against.

SpyCam For Your Cell Phone

Spycam version 1.0
From Tech.Blog - "Arberg Spycam is a freeware spycam application for Nokia S60 2nd Edition mobile devices like 6600, 7650, etc that allows you to capture a photo from your mobile camera if any motion is detected and save it to your device. The application can save a maximum of 20 photos at a time after which it will start overwriting the older captured photos."

From the developer - "This program is only a prototype. It continusly (sic) takes photos and detect if there are any motion. If there is, the last picture is saved. Use the Photo application to see the saved photos. Max 20 files will be saved before the first one is overwritten again. Fell free to send me some bathroom spy photos ;-) "

From us - "Hidden cell phone can now eavesdrop and capture photos at will. Time to get to know us."

This Week in Spycam News

S. Korea - A South Korean TV star has resigned over claims he secretly filmed a woman’s lower body, in the country’s latest celebrity spycam scandal. Presenter Kim Sung-joon pleaded for ‘forgiveness’ after police allegedly caught him red-handed at a metro station in Seoul. more

ID - A Monteview man is facing a felony charge after he admitted to hiding a camera in a bathroom and videotaping people naked, according to court documents. He contacted deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, saying he wanted to turn himself in. During the phone call with a deputy, Roundy said he videotaped people taking showers at his home. He told the deputy he knew it was wrong and wanted to know if he could turn himself in on Friday. more

N. Ireland - An ex-children’s nurse accused of inventing a VIP paedophile gang told jurors he set up a hidden camera to film a boy using a toilet out of “curiosity” to see if he found sexual gratification in it. more

India - Days after a 27-year-old model had filed a case against a skin specialist popular among celebrities, accusing her of clandestinely installing a spy camera in her clinic at Lokhan Complex, Andheri West, and taking her pictures, the Oshiwara police arrested the doctor on Monday. more

FL - A Firestone Complete Auto Care employee was arrested Tuesday after recording at least two female customers using the restroom, the Port Orange Police Department... Police were notified of the recording after one of the victims found a recorder inside the women’s restroom. more

LA - The Jefferson Parish District Attorney has brought formal charges in the case of a camera in a restroom at Smoothie King headquarters in Metairie... He allegedly put the camera under a bathroom cabinet at the company's offices when he worked for Smoothie King. more

Canada - A 22-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly filming multiple women changing in a unisex change room at the Eaton Centre... The man then entered the change rooms and placed a homemade recording device on the floor between change room stalls and recorded numerous females changing. A woman occupying one of the change rooms noticed the device on the floor and immediately notified security and police. more

IN - A 20-year-old employee of an Indiana auto parts store has been charged with possession of child pornography and voyeurism after two 10-year-old girls uncovered a cell phone used to film in the company's staff bathroom... The filming device was discovered by the girls hidden behind a plunger and bottles of cleaning products. It had been placed slightly to the left of the toilet. One of the girls had just used the toilet and the other was partially undressed when they discovered the camera. more

Canada - A man pleaded guilty in a London courtroom Tuesday for secretly video taping his family and friends while they were using the bathroom. The court heard that the man set up a hidden camera in the bathroom of his home and recorded about 20 people between 2010 and 2017. He was charged by police after his daughter discovered the camera and told her mother. more

...and a major story from mid-June that slipped through the cracks...

New Zealand - Ninety women, 81 images, 30 hours of hidden camera video - the victims' stories... more

Spycam Facts:

• Most spycam attacks go undetected.
• A few are discovered... almost all by accident.
• Only a few of these are reported to the police.
• Only a few of these cases are solved.
• Only a few of these cases make the news.
• Only few of these make it to my desk.
• I only share a few of them with you.

Any organization with expectation of privacy areas needs to consider this to protect their employees, visitors and customers... and themselves, from forseeability law suits.

Time to read the next post and let it all sink in.