At an Airbnb? You might be on camera, whether you like it or not

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Hidden cameras in Airbnbs, the stuff that vacation nightmares are made of, are feeding a growing sense of consumer paranoia over surveillance.

Checking your hotel room / AirBnB for those cheap hidden cameras is...Airbnb requires hosts who use cameras to disclose their presence in their listings and not put recording devices in private spaces, but some privacy advocates and technology industry commentators have argued that the policy does not go far enough.

"Suddenly every little tiny pin hole and every piece of sheet rock looked like a camera to me," said Blair. “A lot of things can go wrong when you’re empowering people who have money and the technical capacity to do something and they have too much time on their hands,” said Laura Norén, a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Data Science at New York University.

Ned Mooslin, a 45-year-old contractor from California, wasn’t discouraged by the disclosed external security cameras when he booked an Airbnb for a ski trip with his son. Mooslin said he reported the host afterward to Airbnb. The listing was removed for breaking the disclosure rules.Airbnb recommends that guests who have any question about their rental, from where the towels are to how the security system functions, communicate openly with their host and work things out directly.

 

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We are not so free are we. Why do we have to have big brother watching us everywhere we go? It doesn't make us any safer. It just erodes our freedoms even more. Wake up America before it's to late. Why do they need to know are everything? I will protect myself. Always use cash.

This happened to us. We left the Airbnb immediately when we noticed all the cameras and Airbnb refunded our money.

They are required to disclose if they are using cameras. Plus, people can buy a detector. I dont know how many times, John Gosslin and etc have done reports on this.

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They can watch me if they want

AirBnB is a great concept but not enough protection for property owners against willful destruction and theft. As I personally found out.

Joke’s on them if they see me naked.

Just give them the show they want and ask for 1/2 of the profits.

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