Security Cameras and What to Do If You Find One

The Camera Rule

No camera is allowed inside a place on Kabora. That includes a hallway or a shared indoor space, a doorbell camera pointed indoors, and a camera the host says is switched off.

Outdoor cameras are allowed, provided each one is declared. An undeclared camera breaks the rule as an indoor camera does.

What a Host Declares for Each Camera

• Where it is: One of five outdoor places only: front door or entrance, driveway or parking, back garden or yard, pool or hot tub area, or a shared outdoor entrance. With no indoor option and no free-text location, an indoor camera cannot be recorded at all.
• What it covers: The host describes the coverage in their own words. A camera without a description is refused when the host saves. The whole declaration is then discarded rather than partly saved, so a bare "there is a camera" never reaches a listing.

Answering the camera question is optional; a host can publish a listing with it unanswered.

What the Listing Shows

Under Safety on the listing page, you see one of three things:

• No cameras: "No security cameras at this place." The host declared that there are none.
• Outdoor cameras: "One security camera, outside." or "3 security cameras, all outside". Each camera is then listed with its place and what it covers.
• No camera line: The Safety section may still appear with other information from the host, but without a camera line. Silence does not mean there are none. If it matters to you, ask before you book.

Expect the third case on most listings. A listing added since the camera question was introduced answers it on the last step of Add a listing. An older listing can be answered only in the Kabora app, under a listing → Guest safety → Security cameras. The app is in TestFlight. The website's listing editor has no camera field. So most listings today say nothing about cameras.

The Former Security Camera Amenity

Older listings could tick an amenity called "Security camera on property". It never stated indoors or outdoors, so a listing that carried it counts as unanswered until its host declares. The amenity has been retired: guests no longer see it on the website or in the app, and hosts can no longer tick it.

Declared cameras, with their place and coverage, appear on the website and under Safety in the Kabora app.

If You Find a Camera Inside

On the website, scroll down the listing page past Safety to Report this listing. "There is a camera inside" is the first reason on the list. The report goes to Kabora staff, not to your host. The link appears on every listing, including listings that declare nothing.

You must be signed in. A report from a signed-out browser is refused with a request to sign in first, and nothing is filed. In the Kabora app, Report this listing is at the foot of every listing, with the same reasons.

Kabora does not verify what a host declares and cannot detect a camera. A report from someone in the room is the only way a camera is found.