Voyeurism takes disturbing turn as mini cameras become more accessible


Occurring at the intersection of crime and technology, incidents involving hidden devices placed in restrooms have cropped up with disturbing regularity. It's an old-fashioned invasion of privacy, but conducted through a newfangled digital lens. — Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

Across the country, miniaturised hidden cameras keep popping up in the most unseemly location: public restrooms, where latter-day peeping Toms record every zip, wipe and flush of unsuspecting victims.

This year alone, the unwanted intrusions have shaken locals at a Utah university, inside a New York state middle school, at businesses in a Michigan college town, on a Florida beach — and in the heart of Pittsburgh.

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