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NEWS ABOUT: hidden camera

hidden camera stories: 14 news summaries

 Stingers Release Philly 
 ACORN Video 

Says it proves ACORN lied about incident

Oct 22, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The ACORN stingers have released another video, this time of their visit to the Philadelphia location—where, ACORN has until now insisted, they were kicked out. In the new, edited video, James O’Keefe says they weren’t kicked out, but instead sat for more than half an hour with... More »

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Philadelphia • prostitute • hidden camera • pimp • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

OPINION

 ACORN Chief 
 Blames 
 Everyone 
 But ACORN 

Bertha Lewis not contrite enough for Dana Milbank

Oct 7, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN chief Bertha Lewis wasn’t in the mood to apologize at the National Press Club yesterday. For anything. Not for the internal ACORN review showing that $5 million had been embezzled from the group, rather than the previously alleged $1 million (“This is speculation, completely false”), not... More »

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voter fraud • hidden camera • undercover video • Acorn • Dana Milbank • Bertha Lewis

(Newser) - It looks like Erin Andrews' peeping tom has been caught. FBI agents arrested a Chicago man at O'Hare airport last night and accused him of making nude videos of the ESPN reporter after altering peepholes in two hotel rooms. He tried to sell them to TMZ, then posted clips online,... More »

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ESPN • online videos • reporter • hidden camera • stalking • Erin Andrews • peeping tom • ESPN scandal

opinion

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism


Sep 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart may have an ideological ax to grind, but so what? The undercover ACORN videos he's posted illustrate a significant strength of 21st-century American journalism, writes Jack Shafer: "It will accept contributions from everybody from amateurs to entertainers (I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart) to gadflies to billionaires... More »

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Matt Drudge • conservative • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

ACORN Sues Creators of
Sting Video

Recordings made without two-party consent, group says

Sep 23, 09 6:21 PM CDT
(AP) - ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute. The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to... More »

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lawsuit • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

OPINION

 ACORN Sting 
 Raises Media 
 Ethics Questions 

Hidden video subterfuge made news, but where was the reality check?

Sep 23, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - “You've got to give James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles credit for abundant chutzpah and guile,” writes James Rainey in the Los Angeles Times. The pair’s hidden camera ACORN takedown “likely will do for guerrilla video what Ashton Kutcher did for Twitter—popularize and expand the... More »

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prostitution • video • sting operations • hidden camera • scandal • undercover video • Acorn • mainstream media • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

OPINION

ACORN Takedown Campaign Overblown, Misguided

The actions of a half-dozen employees doesn't represent the huge organization

Sep 18, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The conservative campaign against ACORN—which has now, thanks to a few video “sting” operations, lost its federal funding—is built on an outrageous set of exaggerations and falsehoods, writes Joe Conason for Salon. “No doubt it was fun to dupe a few morons into providing tax advice... More »

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prostitution • voter fraud • DC Madam • video • David Vitter • hidden camera • activists • Acorn • Ken Calvert

ACORN Sting Duo Says Nobody Put Them Up to It

Call themselves 'concerned citizens'

Sep 18, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles say there's no conservative conspiracy behind their decision to dress up as a pimp and prostitute and walk into ACORN offices with a hidden camera. They’re just a pair of concerned citizens, who’ve managed to wound the mighty activist group on a... More »

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prostitution • prostitute • hidden camera • scandal • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

US Census Bureau Axes Community Group ACORN

Group called 'distraction' after sting catches employees advising prostitute

Sep 11, 09 9:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Census Bureau will not allow community-organizing group ACORN to participate in next year’s national census, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a “distraction,” Census director Robert Groves writes, after members of its Baltimore and Washington offices... More »

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prostitution • Census Bureau • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Washington, DC • Acorn • community organizers • 2010 census

ACORN Fires Staffers Over Prostitute Sting Video

Hidden camera catches employees advising phony pimp

Sep 11, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Baltimore office of ACORN has fired two staff members who were caught on tape giving advice to a man and a woman posing as a prostitute and a pimp, the Baltimore Sun reports. The video shows the staffers explaining how to evade tax laws, set up a brothel,... More »

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fraud • Baltimore • hidden camera • Acorn

(Newser) - A one-eyed documentarian is planning a film on privacy shot using a camera implanted in his prosthetic organ, the AP reports. Rob Spence, who plans to become a "human surveillance machine," got the idea when he realized how small his cellphone camera was. His eye muscles will move... More »

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weird • privacy • George Orwell • eyes • prosthetics • hidden camera • documentary film • Rob Spence

 Man Discovers Woman 
 Living in His Closet  

Hidden camera in kitchen captures squatter

May 30, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Japanese man was living with a woman—but he didn't know it. The Fukuoka, Japan, resident busted the squatter after noticing food disappearing from his kitchen and setting up a hidden camera, Reuters reports. He called police after the camera sent his phone pictures of the woman eating. Cops... More »

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Japan • police • homeless • hidden camera • trespassing

 New Cell Service 
 Warns of Speed Traps 

Trapster helps motorists avoid tickets

Apr 4, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Motorists intent on avoiding tickets can now rely on a mobile phone service designed to warn them about radar traps and red-light cameras, the AP reports. Called Trapster, the service uses wireless Internet or a phone’s GPS capabilities to determine location, and gives users an alert if they are... More »

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cell phones • police • speeding • driving • radar gun • mobile services • hidden camera • speed traps • red-light cameras

Police Question Holloway Suspect Again

Van der Sloot says he was stoned during taped confession

Feb 9, 08 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Joran Van der Sloot, the elusive top suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, told Dutch police he was stoned when he confessed to a reporter that he was involved in her death, reports ABC News. Police picked him up for questioning after the apparent confession was caught on a hidden... More »

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Natalee Holloway • Aruba • Joran Van der Sloot • hidden camera • confession

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