UK - A voyeur was locked up after being caught with 169 video clips taken by a spy camera set up to film an unsuspecting woman. The penalties were imposed when he appeared before magistrates in the city. They were told the offence came to light when the camera was discovered and police were alerted. more
ID - A Ketchum man has been charged with one felony count of video voyeurism. A recording device found in the bathroom of a residence at the Wildwood condominium complex. The recording device was found by a guest who was staying at the residence at points between April and June, with her daughter. The woman told Lundergreen that the device was located in the bathroom wall outlet and disguised as a USB charger. more
Japan - The secretary general of a local assembly in Yamagata Prefecture, northwest Japan is fired for voyeurism in a women's bathroom at town hall. more
PA - A West Chester University student was arrested after police said he hid a cellphone in public bathrooms in several locations, including one at West Chester University, and recorded women in various stages of undress. more
LA - A former WAFB employee who secretly recorded two female station employees using the restroom in 2017 was sentenced to four months in prison Tuesday. He was immediately handcuffed and led to prison. more
New Zealand - The man who filmed women using the shower in his Airbnb homestay then uploaded the videos to a porn site has lost name suppression and has been sent to prison for four years and four months. more
New Zealand - A
home handyman who used his position of trust to spy on a female friend
in her bedroom has been sentenced to three months of community
detention. The offending...involved Williamson hiding a camera inside a toolbox that he left in the
woman's bedroom, which he left there after performing maintenance
duties in her home. The device was discovered by the woman, who contacted the police. more
FL - In a case involving allegations that a man placed hidden cameras in his
adult stepdaughter’s bedroom, an appeals court Friday overturned a
conviction on video-voyeurism charges because police improperly obtained
evidence from a laptop computer. more
FL - Investigators say they have uncovered an extensive amount of videos and images of under-age students secretly filmed while undressing by a Bloomingdale High School teacher who was arrested last month on a video voyeurism charge. Mark Ackett, 50, who resigned as a fashion design teacher, now faces an additional 353 charges. He was first arrested on Sept. 11 — the same day a 17-year-old student in his class discovered two cell phones hidden in the classroom changing area where she and her classmates disrobed for fashion assignments. more
S. Korea - South Korea is in the grip of a 'spycam'
epidemic, with covert footage of sex, nudity and urination posted online
in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of women
forced to live with a pornographic shadow. The
footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on
covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of
life for cleaners in many public toilets. more
FL - A massage therapist was arrested over the weekend and charged with video
recording a female customer disrobing prior to an appointment. ... Further investigation indicates that Scott had placed a cellphone in the
massage room to video record the customer while she was undressing. more
NM - A Dona Ana County man is facing time behind bars for hiding video
cameras in bathrooms and capturing video of victims using the restroom,
showering, and changing clothes. ... Police say Ikard's face was even seen on some of the videos as he worked to set up the cameras. more
UK - A retired company director who covertly
filmed a young woman getting changed at his luxury home has been jailed
for eight months. Allan Austin, 66, installed a hidden spy camera at his home in Cheshire because he 'liked the figure' of the victim. When officers searched Austin's £500,000 detached house in the village
of High Legh, near Knutsford, Cheshire they found the hidden camera
which was linked to his computer and iPad. more
The above cases represent only the failures, the ones that got caught. The problem is much larger. Learn how to protect yourself and your children.
A video spycam (with audio recording) we found last Friday at a corporate location...
Now, on to the Extortionography cases. Hey, the elections are here, and the tech fists are flying.
ND - James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a new undercover video on Tuesday night showing vulnerable Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's (D-ND) campaign staff exposing her as being a far-left candidate while she has tried to portray herself as being centrist, saying, "when she gets elected she's going to be super liberal." more
VA - A conservative group that creates undercover “sting” videos infiltrated the campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat in a tight race with Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia’s 7th District. more
AZ - A right-wing operation that creates secretly recorded videos targeted Democratic U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who's running a tight race for U.S. Senate, releasing a video Monday with several clips of the representative and her campaign workers making candid off-the-cuff comments. more
MO - An undercover video exposed a Democrat senator's re-election campaign for secretly taking donations from Planned Parenthood. The video, from conservative activist group Project Veritas, shows campaign workers for Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri talking about how Planned Parenthood funnels money to McCaskill's campaign through other organizations. more
CA - New undercover video appears to show signature gatherers pitching falsehoods to voters get them to sign petitions that would force the massive Newland Sierra development to a public vote. more
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