Source: China News Network
How much is a person's privacy worth today?
In the sale of candid videos, a home private camera shooting resources, only 5 yuan.
"230 yuan 45 home camera resources, 580 yuan 10 hotel camera resources", audio recording, video recording, live broadcast form everything. According to different degrees of excitement, these video resources are clearly marked with prices, ranging from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars.
The seller's offer
With the lowest price, snooping on the privacy of strangers, satisfying the selfish desires of hunting, the desire to "unspeakable" has spawned a black industrial chain of pinhole camera shooting and sales. While many people are still paying attention to personal information such as mobile phone numbers, consumption records, home addresses, etc., your private life may have been monitored.
For example, according to media reports, some criminals hide the pinhole camera in the hotel room, and then share the APP invitation code to let others get the right to watch. Pinhole camera installers often sell invitation codes to offline agents at a price of 150 yuan to 200 yuan each, and each camera can generate 100 invitation codes for hundreds of people to watch online at the same time.
In addition to being sold to private individuals, these candid videos also appear in bulk on sites.
Incidents of candid shooting occur frequently, and the teaching video of "how to find the hidden camera" has been on the hot search for many times. With the continuous upgrading of modification technology, the camera is becoming more and more concealed and more difficult to be recognized by the naked eye.
The investigation found that E-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Jingdong have initially blocked keywords such as pinhole cameras and invisible cameras, but in the eyes of personnel in the black industry chain, these restrictions are just the beginning of their "above ground to underground" and covert sales.
For "people with hearts", pinhole cameras are always not difficult to buy. On the search platform, enter "edge words" such as webcams and tiny cameras, check the product page or talk to customer service, and soon you can find some sellers who sell pinhole cameras privately.
In the circle of friends of a merchant, the aromatherapy, table lamps, mosquito repellents, charging treasures, car keys, razors and other items modified from the pinhole camera are impressive, and the types are very complete, suitable for various scenes.
"There are spot, the number of sales is very large, the concealment is particularly good, according to your needs to modify, rest assured to buy", when selling cameras, merchants behave lightly.
In law, according to the Provisions on Prohibiting the Illegal Production and Sale of Special Equipment for Eavesdropping and Tapping and "Pseudo Base Station" Equipment, miniature pinhole camera devices and photographic and video equipment using miniature pinhole camera devices belong to the category of special equipment for stealing photos.
China's criminal law clearly includes: the crime of illegally producing and selling special espionage equipment, eavesdropping, and special equipment for eavesdropping, and the crime of illegally using special equipment for eavesdropping and eavesdropping.
Screenshot of the seller's circle of friends
Still, the market for pinhole cameras, driven by high profits, survives the black market. The price of the modified pinhole camera ranges from about 500-1000 yuan.
A service provider that provides search engine optimization for pinhole camera merchants said that pinhole cameras are a "profiteering partial door market", and if they are done well, sales and profits are particularly high. "After the function of live broadcasting of the camera came out, the pinhole camera was more popular, and many people made a lot of money by relying on this."
Some camera sellers said that the shipping places are Shandong and Henan. Enterprise investigation data show that at present, the number of camera-related enterprises in China is the top region is Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu and Henan.
How many of these hundreds of companies engaged in the production and sale of cameras are making infringing black money?