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Whether you rent on Airbnb or on another platform, sometimes landlords install discreet but very powerful cameras, sometimes in the bathroom or in the bedroom. France 3 teams investigated this phenomenon.
You rent an Airbnb carefree. Once in the apartment, you think you are calm, whereas you can be observed without your knowledge. cameras are concealed in recesses by owners with bad intentionsincluding in intimate places like the bathroom. A 24-year-old woman had the painful experience of being filmed without her knowledge for a night in an Airbnb. The evening she even discovers a clock in the bathroome digital that challenges him. “I realized there was a small hidden objective. I immediately found it odd.“, she explains. She searches the apartment and finds a second camera in the bedroom.
More and more complaints
By viewing the pictures, she sees thee owner. “We see him come back down, happy with what he is doing. Who knows what he does with it“, specifies the victim. Since then, she can no longer rent an apartment or a hotel room. The traumaism pursues her even on a daily basis. “There are times when I’m in my bathtub, I can get up to check that there is not a camera somewhere”, she says. Larissa filed a complaint. The owner puts forward safety imperatives. The means implemented by the Airbnb platform to prevent these incidents are still insufficient. Complaints have multiplied in recent years, while the cameras are more and more discreet.