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secretly installing cameras in homestays. is there a gray area behind the accommodation industry?

2024-09-26

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[in my opinion, the most fundamental way to ensure safety should not be to let guests bring their own equipment for safety testing, but that major accommodation operators should prevent guests’ privacy from being leaked and ensure accommodation safety from all aspects such as systems, hardware and management.]

being secretly photographed while staying in a b&b? recently, a hidden camera was found installed in a b&b, causing a dispute.

late at night on september 24, the official weibo account of the xinhua branch of the shijiazhuang municipal public security bureau released a police report in response to netizens who reported that they had a conflict with the owner of a homestay and others while searching for hidden cameras in an apartment in xinhua district.

the report stated that on september 24, xinhua branch of shijiazhuang public security bureau arrested wang mouhua (male, 27 years old, from dingzhou city), wang moujie (male, 27 years old, from dingzhou city), and li mou (male, 24 years old, from dingzhou city), all suspects suspected of illegally using special equipment for eavesdropping and stealing photos, and took criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law. after interrogation, the three people did not know the owner of the homestay, and confessed to the crime of secretly installing online-purchased monitoring equipment in the guest room to make illegal profits while staying at the homestay. in response to the excessive behavior of the homestay owner, the police have imposed public security penalties on li mouru (male, 54 years old, from shenze county), zhang mouhua (male, 32 years old, from yangyuan county), and li mouping (female, 39 years old, from pingshan county) who were suspected of disturbing public order.

the guest information registered by accommodation companies and the guests' daily behaviors in guest rooms all involve personal privacy. the above-mentioned voyeuristic photography is undoubtedly an infringement of guests' privacy. so why does such a problem arise?