Spy cams for the half-blind In 2005 San Francisco woman Tanya Vlach lost her left eye in a car accident. Recently she made a call to engineers on her blog to develop technology to replace her plastic prosthesis with a webcam. An expert has stated that a normal spy cam could be fitted into her prosthetic eyeball and wirelessly transmitted to a TV monitor or cell phone.

Spy cams in politics Popular Indian film actor and politician, Chiranjeevi, has summoned his aids to spy on new entrants to his Praja Rajyam party, as a result of leakage of critical information about his policies and activities. Ironically, Chiranjeevi announced this at a high-level meeting that was secretly taped and evidently leaked to the press.

Test scams Steven Lee and Rong Yang were recently sentenced to eight months in prison for using spy cams to help test takers pass the Life in the United Kingdom test, a test for foreigners seeking naturalization or permanent settlement in the UK. Each customer wore a miniature spy cam that was linked to the pair’s laptops and radio transmitters, enabling the pair to see the exams and dictate correct answers through hidden earpieces.

Spy cams in nursing homes Spy cams installed in a Long Island nursing home have revealed abuse of patients and employees forging medical records to conceal misconducts.
The program will be extended throughout New York State to protect the rights of senior citizens.

Spy cams in the workplace Anheuser-Busch fired sixteen employees for violating company policy after installing two spy cams at their St. Louis brewery. These violations include smoking marijuana, sleeping on the job, and urinating on the roof. The company is under criticism for not bargaining with the union before the installation.

In a similar case, a hidden camera investigation in Nashville caught judges wasting taxpayers’ dollars. Time sheets of court employees showed they were being paid for time not spent working. These employees received a full day’s pay, though they left work early or did not show up at all, and instead were running personal errands and playing golf.