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


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SOURCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/airbnb-you-might-be-camera-whether-you-it-or-not-n974776
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In New Zealand, a bridal party said it found a camera hidden in a lightbulb.An NBC News review of Airbnb listings in San Francisco found disclosed security cameras in less than 1 percent of rentals.“There have been more than 400 million guest arrivals in Airbnb listings to date and negative incidents are incredibly rare," Airbnb spokesman Charlie Urbancic told NBC News. “Could you ever imagine staying at a hotel room under 24/7 video surveillance?!” he said.But even Airbnb cameras that are disclosed by hosts can catch renters by surprise. “Just because it’s so easy to record everything now doesn’t mean we should.”The conflict between nosy or wary hosts and privacy-minded renters — for every hidden-camera horror story, there are plenty of Airbnbs getting trashed by partying vacationers — shows how society and Airbnb are struggling to come to grips with the unfettered mass marketing of surveillance.“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.Airbnb hosts who follow the site’s guidelines on camera use said they make everyone safer and catch rule-breakers.

As said here by Ben Popken, Morgan Chesky