Spy cameras: are you being watched?

隐蔽摄像头:你在被监视吗?

Today in Focus

2025-09-01

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With tiny cameras disguised as everyday objects freely available, Anna Moore looks at the sinister ways they can be used – and the worrying rise in voyeurism cases in the UK. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the sinister rise of hidden spy cameras.

  • So, the very first day that I moved in and I had a bath,

  • I sensed that there was eyes watching me when I was in the bathroom,

  • which I know sounds ridiculous, but I just sensed it.

  • It was just before Christmas in 2019, and Heidi Marnie was having a terrible time.

  • Her relationship had broken down, and suddenly she and her baby daughter were homeless.

  • Help arrived in the shape of a family friend,

  • who offered them a room in his house in Sewerby Bridge, near Halifax in West Yorkshire.

  • It was a detached farmhouse, four bedrooms across three floors.

  • And my daughter and I had the back end of the house.

  • The rent was low and Heidi was grateful.

  • But in the bath that first night, something felt off.

  • So he had a sensor in the corner and also a TV in the other corner with a dongle hanging down with a red light.

  • So I took a picture of that and I sent it to my friend and I said,

  • you don't think that's a camera, do you?

  • I have an unbelievable feeling I'm being watched.

  • And my friend said, no, that's just a sky dongle so you can have sky in every room.

  • Heidi felt stupid for even suggesting it.

  • I said, no. He's the nicest person.