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The most common reasons I've encountered:

- people put rooms up on Airbnb and are (perhaps understandably) paranoid about things being stolen. It goes too far if there are cameras in bedrooms though.

- people want to monitor their kids

- general monitoring to catch anyone who breaks in while they are out etc.

Have personally never heard of putting cameras inside for catching domestic violence: I suspect that abusers may be 'smart' in the sense that they'll catch on to this pretty quickly and prevent someone from doing it or manipulate the situation.




Abusers are far far more likely to use cameras against their victims than they are to allow a camera that could be used against them. Technology-enabled surveillance is already a major part of a contemporary domestic abuser's toolkit, this is not even theoretical.




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