According to the report, the alleged ‘Peeping Tom’ was captured on video surveillance taking photographs/ and/or video of the inside of an occupied residence in the 3000 block of Robert Street with his cellular device.The video, which appears to be from a ‘Ring’ doorbell camera, is time-stamped at 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6.
The NOPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying the accused suspect. more
Google searches for eavesdropping up 47% in past week - Worldwide
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
Fawaz and graduate student Yucheng Yang investigated whether this "mic-off-light-on" phenomenon was more widespread. They tried out many different videoconferencing applications on major operating systems, including iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, checking to see if the apps still accessed the microphone when it was muted.
"It turns out, in the vast majority of cases, when you mute yourself, these apps do not give up access to the microphone," says Fawaz. "And that's a problem. When you're muted, people don't expect these apps to collect data."...
Turning off a microphone
is possible in most device operating systems, but it usually means
navigating through several menus. Instead, the team suggests the
solution might lie in developing easily accessible software "switches"
or even hardware switches that allow users to manually enable and
disable their microphones. more
The rapid research and development in information technologies and electronic devices, along with their shrinkage in size has made surveillance obtainable to each of us. All you have to do is Google for GSM tracker, spy camera, hidden voice recorder. Don’t be surprised to see hundreds of thousands or even millions of espionage gear offers...
Detecting the bugging devices is not an easy and simple work. The term describing this type of activity is TSCM which is the abbreviation of Technical Surveillance Counter Measures. TSCM survey is a service provided by qualified personnel to detect the presence of technical surveillance devices and hazards and to identify technical security weaknesses that could aid in the conduct of a technical penetration of the surveyed facility.
A TSCM survey normally consists of a thorough
visual, electronic and physical inspection inside and outside of the
surveyed facility. In conducting surveillance protection one has to be
familiar with the tapping methods; hardware and software products;
engineering solutions used for this purpose as well as their unmasking
signs. Without this knowledge it is not possible to detect a well hidden
bug. more
China is reportedly developing an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system that could turn low-cost commercial satellites, already orbiting the Earth, into powerful espionage platforms. Reports suggest it could have a success rate roughly seven times higher than existing technology.
The new system is being developed by Chinese military researchers, who say it is capable of tracking moving objects as small as a car with extraordinary precision... more
Estimates of the number of Russian diplomatic personnel booted from EU and NATO member states range from 120 to nearly 400.
Foreign Policy reports that at least 394 officials have been expelled since the February invasion began. Germany
alone has expelled 40 members of the Russian delegation, a significant
number and a substantial action by a country, like many others, that
imports Russian natural gas. The stated reason for these expulsions is
to protest Russia’s war in Ukraine, though the expulsions will do little
to impact the war. more
The April 7 suit claims that the law firm’s managing partner, Edward “Eddie” Vrdolyak Jr., had a “fixation with audio and video surveillance.”
The suit cites “information and belief” that the firm’s offices in
Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee, were equipped with a network of audio
and surveillance cameras that Vrodyak monitored from several video
screens in his office. more
by Brian Hochman, Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University
On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York
Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company
investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential
building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan.
In the back bedroom of the unit, the group discovered a cache of stolen wiretapping equipment that turned out to have direct lines into six of New York City’s largest telephone exchanges: PLaza 1, 3, and 5; MUrray Hill 8; ELdorado 5; and TEmpleton 8.
The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate.
“There wasn’t a single tap-free telephone on the east side of New York,” professional wiretapper Bernard Spindel remarked of the arrangement. (Spindel was in all likelihood the source of the anonymous tip.) News of the discovery made the front page of the New York Times a week later. more
Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here?
Hochman explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games, and tracks the use of telephone taps in the U.S. government’s wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. more
How It Works
The Eavesdropping Scam is quite sophisticated. First, the scammer calls a potential victim from an unknown number and, since 79% of unknown calls go unanswered, leaves a voicemail. In the message, the scammer is heard talking to another person about the potential victim, claiming: “I’m trying to get ahold of them right now.” Similar to the Wangiri Scam, the Eavesdropping Scam relies on the victim being so interested that they choose to call back. Once the victim returns the call, the scammer can run a variety of scams, most commonly offering fraudulent tax relief services.
The scam avoids most call
protection services because it does not feature any of the typical scam
call markers:
1) The calls use legitimate numbers,
2) people call the
numbers back,
3) the call sounds very personal despite being a mass
volume robocall, and
4) the content of the voicemail is so vague that it
does not include any common fraud-related keywords. more
TX - The Dallas Cowboys recently paid a $2.4 million settlement stemming from allegations of voyeurism against Rich Dalrymple, the team's former head of public relations, levied by several members of the organization's cheerleading squad. more
A cautionary tale... I was
retained this past year as an expert witness in a spy camera case. The client was a
victim of a spycam secreted in a chain restaurant restroom. I am pleased to
tell you our side just won their lawsuit. The defendant settled for an
undisclosed amount.
Businesses that have expectation-of-privacy areas need a Recording in the Workplace Policy and an inspection program in place.
Canada - Police are searching for a suspect after a woman reported being recorded while in a change room at a Metro Vancouver mall. more
Canada - Man jailed 30 months for hiding 'spy cameras' in bathroom to catch his roommate’s teen-aged daughter. more
UT - A man suspected of using his phone to film a female in a North Logan Walmart changing room was charged in 1st District Court on Friday. more
Canada - A former property manager in the Annapolis Valley has pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism involving a two-way mirror. more
S. Korea - Co-published by TIME and Field of Vision, the documentary Open Shutters follows Jieun Choi, a journalist in South Korea investigating the country’s plague of spycams. more
Canada - A 23-year-old man has been charged after allegedly hiding a cellphone in a women’s washroom at an Ajax hospital. more
CT - A local man was charged with voyeurism Saturday after a juvenile discovered a cellphone hidden in the bathroom of a residence. more
FL - On March 10th, OPD released a video of 28-year old Justin Wright setting up a camera at a Circle K gas station in the city. more
Singapore - After getting away with taking upskirt videos at a shopping mall because the victim did not report him to the police, a Singaporean man continued committing voyeuristic acts on colleagues and his in-laws. more
OH - Ex-funeral home owner pleads guilty... he installed a camera in the women’s bathroom at the former Slack and Wallace Funeral Home. more
UT - Ex-Sandy Fire captain faces 15 felony counts, accused of secretly filming girls undressing...he had been “hiding cameras in a home business space where teenage girls would undress,” more
TN - Families Notified Of 30 Cleveland Middle School Girls Captured On Covert Camera Placed By Teacher more
FL - Man placed phone on bottom of shopping cart, recorded under women’s dresses at grocery store. more
UK - Former Leeds soldier who hid spycam in girls' changing room jailed after admitting voyeurism charges. more
Singapore - Ex-NTU researcher jailed for taking upskirt photos of 400 women over 6 years. more
Northern Ireland - A disgraced guest house owner who narrowly avoided jail after he was caught filming men and boys in toilets is now challenging the sentence that kept him out of prison. more
Singapore - Ex-teacher jailed 10 weeks, fined for taking voyeuristic videos of colleagues, students and policeman more
Vietnam - A woman from Vietnam hacked off her husband’s penis after using a spy camera to see him indulging in inappropriate behavior with his niece. more
FL - A Sarasota acupuncturist ...used a spy camera that doubled as a functional pen to record the patient undressing. more
SC - A Virginia Beach man has been arrested for allegedly recording inappropriate video of a student on the Medical University of South Carolina campus. more
UK - Hospital chiefs say they have been working closely with police after a man was charged with filming a woman in its toilets, and then attempting to blackmail her on social media into paying £1,000. mor
WA - An Oregon man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for recording people using the restroom at a Vancouver hospital and possessing child pornography. more
AR - Ashton Jaleel Thomas, 26, of Springdale, was arrested on suspicion of committing multiple acts of video voyeurism at the changing rooms in a Rogers Goodwill store. more
Singapore - A 40-year-old man used spy cameras to film videos of female friends and co-workers using the toilet in several locations, including his home, his friends' homes and his workplace. more
It was developed for those who are interested in becoming security consultants, and those who recently launched an independent security consulting practice.
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We get asked this when someone finds a bit of miniature electronics embedded in the sheets or other linens.
If you are seeing one of these buried in the hem of your linens the answer is no. You can relax.
These are RFID tags. Commercial laundries attach them to linens to keep track of who belongs to what.
As one supplier explains... "UHF RFID textile laundry tags are designed to optimize industries laundry processes, providing durability and suitability for washing, drying, dry cleaning and ironing. They can be used for many different applications such as laundry application, logistics, anti-counterfeiting, supply chain management control, inventory control, asset tracking, process control..."
If you are concerned about privacy in your rented bedroom learn how to find hidden spy cameras.
Informally known as the “Agency” or the “Company”, the Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States government. Its main task is to gather, process, and analyze national security information from all over the world, mostly through the use of human intelligence and performing actions behind the curtain. It was former-President Harry S. Truman’s initiative to create the Central Intelligence Group out of the Office of Strategic Services on January 22, 1946, which was transformed itself into the Central Intelligence Agency by the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947.
Here are three of the declassified spy gadgets that were designed by the CIA and could be found in their museum:
