He was listening through Alexa.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
Warning: these stories get pretty disturbing.
Dad the panopticon
My brother and I were constantly monitored this way by our dad.
God & Man
He also had a software program on our family computer that would log our chats.
Thats how he found her address and also found out that I had smoked weed for the first time.
pale_moon_pixie
Psycho dad
My ex idiot was exactly like that.
Monitored our teen daughters every move when she was there for court-ordered visitation.
Monitored the phones and the tvs.
Spied on her every move.
MamaBear4485
This is upsetting
I found the images/videos taken with a hidden smart phone.
Thought my fiance had relapsed on drugs, went snooping when he left for work.
He was secretly recording our preteen daughter in the bathroom, the shower, changing in her room…
He manipulated and abused me for years, but I never imagined he would victimize his own daughter.
throwmeaway32392
Ex-friend
An ex-friend of mine was recording us going to the bathroom in his parents house.
This was early 2000s, and we were all high schoolers.
Technically it wasnt me that discovered the camera, but a friend.
He noticed the linen closet was slightly open and says he saw a glint off the lens.
We threw the whole camera in the fire and held him back from trying to save it.
He got roughed up and (not proud of this) thrown into the fire.
He was ok. Minor burns.
Didnt even need a hospital.
We told his parents.
They moved away the next year.
I sometimes think about what could have happened to him if we were in the early 2010s instead.
Pretty sure it would have been way more serious for both sides.
Turns out it was family (not blood related) who placed it in there.
Confronted them and they said they didnt know it was a hidden camera.
I let it go because I was young.
Found four more, years apart, one fairly recently.
It tore my family apart.
Camera was in the AC vent above the door.
chairmanmeow7
Cactus cam
I was regifted a plastic cactus figurine by a coworker.
When I was going to bed I accidentally kicked the cactus over and found a spy cam inside.
featoutsider
Apparently its not illegal!
He went to jail but I wasnt able to do anything because there apparently are (were?)
tgrote555
Nanny cams
My last nanny job was in the summer of 2019.
It lasted 3 weeks.
The family was…well…we didnt see eye to eye.
They seemed totally normal and great during the interview, of course.
Every day that I came in after starting, there were more and more red flags.
They would not allow me to end the door when I used the bathroom.
Kids were 2 and 5.
Their reasoning was that the door needed to be open in case the 2 year old needed me.
Okay, maybe I could understand that, but the parents WORKED FROM HOME.
They were in the room right off of the bathroom and could easily see me with the door open!
One day, both parents went out and left me alone with the kids.
I thought we had a pretty good day.
The mom, who was watching us from undisclosed cameras all day, had a different opinion.
There were a lot more weird things but you get the idea.
It must have been motion activated or just did a turn every once in a while?
The bathroom is small and it was obvious/in plain sight.
Not ONE PERSON mentioned it.
At the end of the party I was like wtf guys.
NOBODYS gonna mention the camcorder over the toilet??!!
Nobody had even seen it, somehow.
tuenthe463
Family friend
The creep ended up in jail.
DemandParticular
Predator lifeguard
This happened to a friend.
She was with some of her other friends (11-14 y/o) swimming in the lake.
She went to the police and reported him.
They ended up arresting him, he lost his job.
They have to wait 2 years more to take him to court.
guatdefuk
Fight, flight, freeze
Some young guy filmed me naked in a sauna.
I caught him and he looked scared and shut his phone.
My head was spinning and I took too long out of confusion, to tell a manager.
By the next morning they could not identify this person.
I wish I said something immediately.
SillyGayBoy
Stepdad from hell
I didnt actually find the cameras but my younger brother found the recordings.
My stepfather had set up some cams with shitty quality, mostly for audio and not to watch.
Dunno if he did.
It made me extremely paranoid for a while.
Several people were filmed, including minors.
randonautMI
Boyfriend
Didnt happen to me but happened to a girl at my University.
He plead guilty and went to jail.
The first time he got her to believe it was a neighbor so they moved.
The end result of that will hopefully be her losing custody because she still lets him around her kids.
Her ex husband had every thing bugged.
Cameras pointed at the entrance/exits and drive way.
Cameras in the livingroom, dining room, hallways, bedrooms.
She swears there was never one in the bathroom but im suspicious of that.
He had her laptop bugged so he had remote access to it from work.
He had keyloggers installed to keep tabs of her passwords.
That guy has some serious mental issues.
Therefore it was his own property and he could do what he wanted with it.
Unless he became threatening they refused to do anything about it.
In the end he never faced any kind of legal backlash.
