Airbnb host secretly recorded over 2,000 images of guests with his security camera, authorities said (www.businessinsider.com)
from neme@lemm.ee to privacy@lemmy.ca on 12 Jul 2024 19:02
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 12 Jul 2024 19:05 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In the quiet Hill Country town of Comfort, Texas, Airbnb host A. Jay Allee welcomed guests to a rural retreat.

The case is part of an ongoing debate about the appropriateness of cameras at short-term rentals, which include rooms and homes listed on Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com.

Last year, before the ban, some hosts told Business Insider that they needed cameras for their own security and reassurance that their property wasn’t being damaged.

Some travelers, however, posted on social media that they feared hosts skirting rules to invade their privacy — even though, at that time, all security cameras had to be disclosed in the listings.

“When we do receive an allegation, we take appropriate, swift action, which can include removing hosts and listings that violate the policy,” an Airbnb spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.

David Wyzynajtys, who stayed at Allee’s property in July 2021, told CNN that discovering the cameras inside the home was the “scariest moment” of his life.


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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 12 Jul 2024 19:34 next collapse

Something tells me this is not the only place where that happened.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 13 Jul 2024 06:37 collapse

Nope, that’s the only one, I checked. ;)

LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 2024 19:56 next collapse

“Images”

Yeah, right. That’s what you record with a camera. Videos don’t even exist, right? This kind of journalism should be deemed as a crime.

sunzu@kbin.run on 12 Jul 2024 19:58 collapse

How is that not a felony?

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 2024 00:09 collapse

Why would it be?

Legally it’s akin to staying at a friend’s house not a business

That’s how they skirt by any other restriction

sunzu@kbin.run on 14 Jul 2024 00:13 collapse

You pay you friend rental and cleaning fees when you stay over?

And they record you while you stay?

You need some better friends dawg

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 2024 00:17 collapse

And ubers are just friends giving you a ride

Not sure what I have to do with this though