‘Upskirting’ Has Become a Hidden Industry in China, and It’s Everywhere

Ms. Tang, a Chinese woman, discovered miniature hidden cameras in multiple hotel rooms during a stay at Linwu International Hotel in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, China, on Oct. 7, 2021. The Epoch Times illustration

At 2 a.m., a woman walked into the bathroom to take a shower not knowing that there was a spy camera hidden in a ventilation opening of the bathroom ceiling. An undercover reporter with the Chinese Communist Party’s official media said that he viewed the secretly filmed footage in an online chat group that people had to pay money to enter, and that hundreds of people were watching.

According to a Dec. 22 report from official media “Legal Daily,” China’s spy camera business has become almost ubiquitous to every part of society, with the privacy of the public being sold at very low prices.