Hundreds of hotel guests were secretly filmed and live-streamed online

 
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:04 am    Post subject: Hundreds of hotel guests were secretly filmed and live-streamed online

Seoul (CNN)Around 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, police said Wednesday.

Two men have been arrested and another pair investigated in connection with the scandal, which involved 42 rooms in 30 hotels in 10 cities around the country. Police said there was no indication the hotels were complicit in the scheme.

Cameras were hidden inside digital TV boxes, wall sockets and hairdryer holders and the footage was streamed online, the Cyber Investigation Department at the National Police Agency said in a statement.

The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. Between November 2018 and this month, police said, the service brought in upwards of $6,000.

"There was a similar case in the past where illegal cameras were installed in (hotels) and were consistently and secretly watched, but this is the first time the police caught where videos were broadcast live on the internet," police said.

South Korea has a serious problem with spy cameras and illicit filming. In 2017, more than 6,400 cases of illegal filming were reported to police compared to around 2,400 in 2012.

Last year, tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Seoul and other cities to protest against the practice and demand action, under the slogan "My Life is Not Your Porn."
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:17 am    Post subject:

When I'm not in the confines of my home I assume I'm in public

...no one in their right mind would pay to see me shower
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:37 am    Post subject:

VicXLakers wrote:
When I'm not in the confines of my home I assume I'm in public

...no one in their right mind would pay to see me shower


I think it was you that forced me to quit watching and ask for a refund
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:53 am    Post subject:

ContagiousInspiration wrote:
VicXLakers wrote:
When I'm not in the confines of my home I assume I'm in public

...no one in their right mind would pay to see me shower


I think it was you that forced me to quit watching and ask for a refund



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:14 am    Post subject:

thats a pretty small revenue stream for such an operation
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:14 am    Post subject:

VicXLakers wrote:
When I'm not in the confines of my home I assume I'm in public

...no one in their right mind would pay to see me shower


A lot of people may already be in public inside their homes and don't even know it. If all the companies have such lax cyber security as Ring they've provided the cameras and microphones themselves.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:25 am    Post subject:

We're not really safe anywhere. I've even heard that hackers can get into your laptop with a cpu virus and turn on the camera live streaming you to others
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:29 am    Post subject:

The Juggernaut wrote:
We're not really safe anywhere. I've even heard that hackers can get into your laptop with a cpu virus and turn on the camera live streaming you to others


In that picture over your left shoulder, is the girl in the red top dating anyone at the moment? And friendly advice, delete your browser history. Those penguins pics could prove incriminating.
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