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  "path": "/t/hotel-room-privacy-techniques/38978#post_12",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-04T22:53:20.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This thread is devolving into paranoia. Like digital privacy and security, physical ones require accurate threat modeling or you will go insane.\n\nIf you are staying in a jurisdiction where the local government is not targeting you, then there is a very small chance they would spend the huge resources on physical surveillance.\n\nTied to this idea, if you stay at a big chain hotel brand like Hilton or Marriott then they are highly unlikely to wittingly have cameras or microphones in any of the rooms. The financial liability, directly from lawsuits, and the reputations risk is **extreme.** Can you imagine the shit storm from a global headline that a Hyatt/Hilton/Marriott hotel was secretly video taping inside a guest room?\n\nThat is a multi-billion dollar negative hit to a for profit corporation. They are highly incentivized against this behavior. The only possible exception would be state run unwitting surveillance (which is a thing, but again only for high pay off targets).\n\nCritically, this anti-incentive **does not** apply to small independent hotels or especially AirBNB. It’s the main reason I will never stay in an Air BnB. They have had multiple documented cases of hidden camera but the main corporation involved deflects to it being the liability of the host.\n\nBottom line: I travel a lot for work. When I am in a friendly jurisdiction I just stay at big brand hotels and keep my personal electronics on me when I leave the room. If I travel to a suspect jurisdiction (and I have for work); then I treat my room as a known place of being watched.",
  "title": "Hotel Room Privacy Techniques"
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