Airbnb Guest Finds Hidden Camera in Fake Motion Detector

Airbnb Guest Finds Hidden Camera in Fake Motion Detector
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A man who works for Internet Archive posted a tweet of a secret recording device found at his colleague’s Airbnb rental. The tweet went viral.

Photos posted to Twitter on Nov. 27 of the covert camera, designed to look like a motion detector, have received over 33,000 likes and over 23,000 retweets. The post even caught the attention of AirBnB that requested contact information for the man’s colleague.

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