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May 6, 2008 6:54 pm US/Eastern
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Hidden Camera Detectors Take On High-Tech Voyeurs
New Yorkers Among Many Across Country Fed Up With The Notion That Someone Could Be Watching
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
It's a personal invasion for victims – someone watching and taping your most private parts. Now police say they are catching more and more of these predators.
We've come to expect the eyes in the sky but the hidden eyes on each other means a newer, more voyeuristic version of Big Brother.
"It not only refers to Big Brother as far as government, but your brother, my brother, everybody could be watching you," said Long Island private eye Darrin Giglio of North American Investigations.
Giglio says the tiny technology of today makes it nearly impossible to detect.
"I always have the mindset of 'Do I think I'm being watched?' I probably am being watched," Giglio said.
The latest cases of watching involve someone videotaping men's body parts on the subway and another who rigged a Dunkin Donuts women's bathroom with a hidden camera.
But there have been cameras installed in showers, and at least one instance of a man using his cell phone to shoot up a woman's skirt.
The advancement of technology has made it much easier and cheaper for people to become video voyeurs. An inexpensive hidden camera that looks like a glasses case can invade anyone's privacy at anytime.
"The camera can be hidden so well, there's almost no way to detect it," said Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations.
Porteous says once private places are now open for some to see, such as store dressing rooms. How would we know that a hidden camera isn't watching above?
"If you go into a dressing room there's almost no way you can tell," Porteous said.
That is unless you have a hidden camera detector. The device, which costs about $80, is a way to fight technology with technology.
"This reflects off a lens glass, and so if the camera is wireless or wired, on or off it will detect it," Porteous said as he demonstrated.
But assuming you don't have one of these detectors, you might wonder wherever you go, is someone watching?
Under New York State law, surveillance is considered unlawful when a person is using video for amusement, entertainment or profit.
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