We are only halfway through, the first month, of the first year, in a new decade... and the spycam pandemic is off to a roaring start.
Like corporate espionage and other forms of illegal electronic surveillance,
only the failures make the news. The
vast majority of illegal covert electronic surveillance goes undetected.
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Canada - Edward Casavant, 55, (who gave himself
the nickname, “Eddie Spaghetti”) pleaded guilty to possession of child
pornography, making child pornography, voyeurism and sexual exploitation
of a person with a disability, and was sentenced to six years in
prison.
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OH - A former Hillsdale Middle School and High School art teacher convicted of voyeurism was sentenced Tuesday to 180 days in jail.
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CA - Peterborough man charged with voyeurism after allegedly using electronics to peer through windows.
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Singapore - The alleged victims of a Singaporean undergraduate accused of illicitly
filming 12 women want a gag order on his identity to be lifted, despite
being fully aware of the risk of being identified.
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ID - Kory Ray West, the 34-year-old man accused of concealing a video camera
in the bathroom of a Blackfoot home where he had been staying, and of
stealing items of underclothing from bedrooms, could serve up to seven
years in prison for his crimes.
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NY - The husband of a New York prosecutor who filmed his child's nanny on
bathroom spycam, could have charges against him dropped, after he
claimed he only used it to watch himself undress.
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HI - An $8,000 project to install covert security cameras in the Council
Chambers of the county building in order to monitor an active shooter or
hostage situation was kept secret from most council members and the
public, county officials said.
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CA - Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage.
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KY - A former teacher at a Kentucky high school admitted to filming students in a bathroom...
Police...reported finding a recording
device set up in the bathroom of the nurse's station. Police said the
video recorder captured the person putting the device in place.
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MI - A Canton man pleaded guilty last month
to three felony charges associated with illegal voyeurism at an
Aqua-Tots swim school in his hometown... Police said they were dispatched to the Canton Aqua-Tots swim school for young children...because a woman saw a recording device targeting her changing stall. She reported her suspicions to staff.
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UK - staff and parents with children at Denmead Junior School were in shock at the grim discovery of an iPhone in a vent. Action
was taken by the school. A 23-year-old man from Waterlooville (was arrested) on
suspicion of voyeurism. He has been released under investigation.
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CT - An investigation that began in South Windsor in August that led to a
Manchester man being charged with voyeurism after filming people in a
locker room at L.A. Fitness resulted in more charges being filed against
him Friday stemming from similar incidents in Farmington, police said. South Windsor police said that Selby had placed his cellphone in one of the lockers and left the door open.
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CA - A Desert Hot Springs man who was previously required to register as a
sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of filming people
inside a grocery store bathroom in Cathedral City...10 misdemeanor counts of
unlawful use of a concealed camera to secretly videotape.... 2013 - Prosecutors alleged he concealed a video camera in a paper bag and entered a woman's restroom in a Los Angeles Macy's department store dressed as a woman and secretly videotaped women using the restroom.
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Wales - A sportsman who once represented Anglesey in the Island Games has admitted installing a camera in toilets where people, including youngsters, got changed.
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