Steem4Nigeria Accelerator- Simple proven ways to detect a hidden camera with smartphone

Greetings to fellow tech contents lovers in this noble community. It's another opportunity from me to dish out tech knowledge this time around on **Some Simple Ways To Detect A Hidden Camera**. I just hope this will be of worth to many.

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Forward

In today's day, security of our lives and properties is of highly importance and a most-engaged-in act by everyone.Some of the places where CCTV cameras are mostly found today include malls, superstores, places of worship, personal homes, hotels to mention but few.
The first aim of most secret camera installers is for footages incase of an ugly occurrence without the presence of the natural eyes and not to violate people's right of privacy.

Now, these secret cameras comes in different forms as most of you should know, ranging from size to appearance and also, how they works. All things considered, the purpose of this publication is to educate you on how to compose yourself in a newly visited home or any public place at all which is likely to have a secret camera and most importantly, how to detect if there's a hidden secret camera in that room with a phone if you want to.

How to detect hidden cameras with your phone

These below are simple ways you can detect hidden cameras in an enclosed room. Some of these ways include those cameras which comes in form of an energy saving bulb, a wall alarm etc. Kindle study them.

• Detect with your smartphone camera🔎✔️:

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This should be the easiest yet it's a highly proven way of detecting a hidden camera in a room.
The procedures are quite simple and as follows; once found yourself in a newly room which is suspicious of secret cameras, kindly turn off the lights in the room and ensure there's no single light reflecting in it, you can consider spreading the window curtains.

Once done, go ahead and switch On your phone camera and gently move it around every corner of the room. If there's any form of secret camera installed in that room, your phone will detect a white or sometimes a red light and if this shows then you can switch on the lights and investigate thoroughly.
Please Note: when phone camera is turned on, ensure that the phone light is off also.

• Detect with your smartphone flashlight:🔎✔️

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Yes! It's possible to detect a hidden camera with a flashlight too. The aforementioned methods states you should switch off your phone light while turning your phone around the room while this one state you should switch on whether your front light or backlight for detection.
While detecting, if you notice a notice any sign of reflective light then you need to investigate the spot very well.

• Detect with smartphone camera and magnetometer sensor:🔎✔️

This is such a pro level of detecting secret cameras which can't be seen with the naked eye.
With your smartphone camera and if it's a phone that support magnetometer sensor, you can detect those cameras and as well, some other hidden listening devices and microphones also.
This method can be applied to those hidden devices that emit infrared radiation known as IR, these can't be seen with a physical eye.

Conclusion

I love publishing from either experiences and observations; this post is from observations. Of course i've read so much about cases of blackmail through secret cameras which is why I decided to write.
Hope you learnt something new.
Be safe wherever you are please.

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