You check into a short-let in Lagos for the weekend. Nice place, good reviews, nothing looks out of place.
Three months later, a friend sends you a WhatsApp forward. A link. “Is this you?”
It is. Recorded from a smoke detector in the corner of the room you thought was private. Already circulating in a Telegram group before you even knew it existed.
This isn’t far-fetched — it’s the exact playbook the BBC News exposed in hotels, and the same one a woman used to sue a hotel for 500 million after she was secretly filmed in the shower.
Hidden cameras don’t care what country you’re in. The tech is the same, cheap, and easy to plant — Lagos, Accra, China, it makes no difference.
The only real defense is checking before you settle in — not hoping it never happens to you.