Name: We tested five ways to find hidden cameras in hotels and house rentals（We tested five ways to find hidden cameras in hotels and house rentals）
Uploaded: 2024-03-03T05:48:05.000Z
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Have you ever wondered if you're being watched?

It's a feeling that's creeping in for more travelers, as stories

of hidden cameras, in hotel rooms, house rentals, cruise ships,

even airplane bathrooms, continue to make headlines.

Spycams were once the stuff  of international espionage, 

with secret agents given cameras  resembling pocket watches,

In the movie “Meet the Parents,” Robert DeNiro's character Jack Byrnes hides cameras

Which seems feasible because  he's a retired CIA agent. 

Now, anyone can buy these items,  either in stores or online.

But how hard is it to find these cameras?

And do devices designed to locate  hidden cameras really work?

We asked a Singapore tech company, OMG Solutions,  to hide cameras in three rooms in this house.

Then we sent in my colleague,  Victor, to see how many he could find

First with the naked eye, and then with the help  of four different types of camera detectors.

closely examining the master bedroom,  inspecting bunkbeds in a child's room.

And scrutinizing household  items in the home office.

He spent a lot of time at the  book case, and walked away.

I know that there are hidden cameras, but I can't  seem to locate them. It is really disconcerting.

So far, he said he's found nothing suspicious.

After 20 minutes of searching, he found  one camera located inside a working clock.

Wait, alarm clock? Is the time correct? So this alarm clock, the time is wrong.

Where is the lens? Oh! Oh! I found one! Oh my god, I saw it!

The time was wrong, which tipped him off.

At the six o'clock, you can see it! Oh my god, it's... not bad.

But what gave it away was the time. I found one, yes! But it's so well camouflaged.

But Victor wasn't pleased with this result,  feeling he probably missed a spycam or two.

But what he doesn't know is that he missed  26 out of 27 hidden cameras in the house.

This didn't surprise Pieter Tjia, founder of OMG Solutions.

He's touching the camera, but he might  not be able to tell that it's a camera.

He said in the past three years, cameras  have become smaller and harder to see,  

often hidden in everyday objects, such as  calculators, diffusers, and water bottles.

Like a pinhole camera, it's  embedded into the object.

When video cameras hit the  mass market in the 1980s,  

they were designed to rest  on the operator's shoulder.

Later models could be operated with just one hand.

Today, most people carry video  cameras with them most of the time.

But while spycams are much smaller,  they're just as easy to buy and operate.

Back at the house, we asked Victor to  download a popular app called Fing,  

The app, what it does is,  it details whether or not 

something is connected to the wireless network.

It says that there are 22 active  devices but found no cameras.

And the app doesn't like tell me  exactly where and what to look out for.

I don't know where are they,  it's not solving my problem.

He also used his phone's flashlight to  search, a common tip suggested online.

Wait... Is this a hidden camera? Now I'm paranoid.

to find these cameras you would have to  pick up every single object in the room.

Every angle, and then even still, you may miss it.

This search, aided by the flashlight, located  another three cameras, in a Wi-Fi repeater

Sound bar... nothing. Wi-fi repeater, nothing...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. There's a camera over here.

I thought this was a Wi-fi repeater, but it's not. I see a camera over here. Found it.

Oh wait, I found one. I was looking  at this hanger next to the mirror,  

as I made my way down to the buttons, it  suddenly occurred to me that I've seen a  

movie where a hidden camera  was embedded in the button.

So I was looking at the first  button, second button, third button!

Then that's where it gave it away, the button  is different from the rest of the buttons.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a 4K camera,  which has a livestreaming function.

If you're not observant, you  would not have noticed it.

And a teddy bear, the last  one Victor noticed because  

of the unusual grammar on the bear's shirt.

The bear has this badge that says, “With happiness, every time and pleasure”.

There's a hole in the eye?! Oh, there's the camera!

So I found 3 cameras so far... 1, 2, 3. Cool.

it was time to turn to hand-held devices  designed to locate hidden cameras.

This is a radio frequency detector. It beeps when it's close to a camera.

But it only works if a camera is  turned on and connected to Wi-Fi,  

which means it won't find cameras  that use SD cards to store data.

It's almost like you're  distracted with that sound.

Yeah, he's gonna be annoyed with this one.

There's a lot of false alarms, which is  actually making my job harder than it should be.

This device also has a built-in lens detector,  

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