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This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. (SOUMNDBITE OF HUSKY RESCUE'S "FAST LANE")Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. Thank you so much for speaking with us today. That's Thorin Klosowski, privacy and security editor at Wirecutter. But I don't know how often they, you know, get reported. And Airbnb does have policies in place, and they'd get picked up on the news enough that clearly, they've instituted rules. KLOSOWSKI: I haven't been able to find, like, a really great list of just how many times these get reported. RASCOE: And, I mean - so how worried should guests be about this? Like, you know, like, is this a really big issue? And you can also just kind of unplug anything that looks kind of fishy, whether that's an alarm clock or just a USB plug that seems random in the wall. You can unplug the Wi-Fi router and, if you do so, it might alert the host. KLOSOWSKI: Yeah, I think you can cover things up that maybe do look a little weird or you're unsure about. RASCOE: So in addition to, like, the flashlight, is there anything else that you can do? And you might either be scared for nothing or be totally missing something important. You might not really know what you're looking at. And it can be useful, to be clear, but it also tends to be a little bit more technical, a little bit more complicated. And, funnily enough, one of the reasons I don't trust the apps is because it wasn't even picking up the Ring camera, which was clearly on the door. RASCOE: Have you ever found, like, a camera or anything where you were staying? And then you end up just kind of walking close to it and inspecting it anyway. So glass or a camera would kind of show up the same thing. But they also - like, if you use them to scan for, say, a camera, it will kind of pick up any reflection. A lot of the apps kind of have their own bad behaviors of often requiring a subscription fee or something like that that kind of feels a little icky. KLOSOWSKI: I actually find the flashlight to be easier and a little bit better at finding things. KLOSOWSKI: There are, and I don't love them.
RASCOE: And are there apps out there now that are intended to help people find these hidden cameras? And if that's recording, like, a night vision, you would also see that. You can also turn off all of the lights and you will see an IR signal. KLOSOWSKI: The first thing that I would personally do is grab a flashlight, go to the kind of private areas that I would not expect a camera to be and flash that around to see if I see a reflection of what a camera lens would look like, which is kind of a blue reflection. How do you know where there may be recording devices? RASCOE: So let's start with you're going into a home - a Vrbo, an Airbnb situation. RASCOE: And hotels obviously have the same sorts of policies. Airbnb, like, specifically states that hosts need to disclose any cameras on the property, and those cameras should not be in any private areas, like a bathroom or a bedroom. RASCOE: So first - and we should be clear that the people who do this, whether it's at Airbnb or a hotel - they are going against policy, right? And we're joined now by Thorin Klosowski, privacy and security editor at Wirecutter. But there are ways for travelers to protect themselves. Over the past few years, we've seen reports of Airbnb and Vrbo landlords posting private photos and information and unscrupulous hotel employees selling streams of what happens in hotel rooms. And along with that, for some guests, there's concern - to paraphrase that old song - that somebody's watching them.
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