2008 Advice: Scan Your Hotel Rooms For Cameras
The brave new digital world we live in as 2008 begins requires yet another precaution, that you scan your hotel rooms for secret camera devices before engaging in any, well, intended to be private activity.
The Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek has admitted that he is the man who features in two widely circulated DVDs within Malaysian of an unmarried couple having sex in a hotel room. Actually, Mr Chua Soi Lek is married, just not to the young lady “friend” who co-stared in the video.
“I am the man in the tape,” Mr Chua, 60, told reporters.
“The girl is a personal friend.”
“I would like to emphasise I did not make the tape myself,” he added.
“Who [did] this is not important. What is most important is that my family, wife and children have accepted my apology.”
With the widespread use of tiny high resolution surveillance cameras the risk of being recorded without being aware that you are being recorded is very real. Then with the Internet surfers going wild over video recordings you may find that your actions that were intended to be private, whatever they may be, are being viewed by millions of folks who may even be prompted to give you a rating.
While your actions may be completely legal, and performed with your married husband or wife, having millions of viewers watching your private sex acts on Internet video porn networks could be highly embarrassing, that is if you ever found out about it.
The highest risk of something like this happening to you are probably if you are traveling in Asia and staying at less than first class hotels. Probably the lower the hotel classification the higher the risk.
The risk of being secretly filmed is not just in hotel rooms, by the way. If you are trying on clothes in a “private” dressing room or undressing at a massage salon, even a doctors office, you may be subject to being filmed.
It even gets worse. Bathrooms in public places like airports and bus stations may have filming devices for “security” purposes. Some of the new cameras are really tiny and would be difficult to spot.
Government officials may increasingly become victims of their own approval of security cameras being placed in huge numbers at just about every location. Like the unfortunate Mr Chua they may have to apologize for indiscreet acts performed in private that thanks to modern technology become very public.
Happy New Year to the brave new world of 2008 and beyond.
