Topic Library — Hidden Technology in the Home (Year 1 Foundations)

School: Minister Destiny Testimony Schools Track: Adult Class: Topic Library — Year 1 (Foundations) Founded and presented by: Muslim Ordained Minister Destiny Marie Morgan

This lesson is educational information, Massachusetts-first, and is not legal advice. Laws and procedures vary by state and by case. If you are in danger right now, call 911. If you have a real case, talk to a lawyer — legal aid organizations help many people for free.

Before you start

• This school never asks your name. Your progress is saved only in your own browser on this device — the school collects and keeps nothing. If you pass this unit's quiz (80% or higher, retakes allowed), you earn a downloadable certificate with a blank line — you write your own name on it after you save it. Quiz answers are not shown; if you miss a question, re-read the lesson and try again.
• ⚠️ SAFETY BOX — READ THIS FIRST: If the person who may be watching you could be dangerous, do NOT remove devices, change passwords, reset accounts, or confront anyone first. Sudden changes can escalate danger and can destroy the evidence you need. Document from a SAFE device — a phone or computer the watcher has no access to — and safety-plan with an advocate first: National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 (call or text), thehotline.org.
• This unit teaches detection, preservation, reporting, and remedies only — never planting surveillance or evading lawful process. If reading on a device someone else can see feels unsafe, stop and return from a safe device.

The lesson

Part 1. Safety first, and how homes get watched

If the person who may be watching you could be dangerous, do NOT remove devices, change passwords, reset accounts, or confront anyone first. Sudden changes can escalate danger and can destroy the evidence you need. Document from a SAFE device — a phone or computer the watcher has no access to — and safety-plan with an advocate first: National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 (call or text), thehotline.org. Every later Part depends on this rule. The FTC's stalkerware guidance warns the same way — steps on a monitored phone can tip off the watcher, and cutting off access can escalate abuse — as does NNEDV's Safety Net Project: plan strategically around technology before removing a camera, closing an account, or changing a setting.

Homes get watched in recurring ways: a partner or ex who has — or once had — legitimate access (passwords, the family phone plan, the home's accounts); smart-home devices set up by one person and turned against another; a hidden camera or microphone placed in a home, rental, or workplace by someone with brief access; and location sharing left on, or switched on, so a phone can be followed untouched. One honest framing line: most home surveillance is not high technology — it is ordinary devices and ordinary accounts, controlled by whoever is the administrator. Ordinary accounts leave ordinary records: Parts 2–4 find the watching, Part 5 preserves it, Parts 6–7 report and act — in that order, at your safety plan's pace.

Part 2. The smart home — who holds the admin account holds the home

A smart lock, thermostat, doorbell camera, voice speaker, and the Wi-Fi router all answer to an account. Whoever holds the administrator account can usually view history, change settings from anywhere, add or remove users, and receive alerts — without entering the home. NNEDV's Survivors' Guide to the Smart Home describes exactly this misuse: connected devices monitoring remotely, controlling heat, alarms, locks, and lights. If one person bought, installed, or "helped" set up the devices, they may still hold the keys after moving out.

Signs of misuse are small and deniable — why Part 5's log matters. Settings change that nobody remembers making. A lock is cycled remotely, or its entry history checked constantly. The thermostat is adjusted to punish — heat cut in winter, or run up to raise the bill. Doorbell history is watched to log visitors. A speaker plays sounds at night. One incident proves little; a dated pattern proves a great deal. Reclaiming the admin account is a planned step, never a first reaction: done suddenly, it announces that you know and can erase logs; done planned — after documentation, with an advocate, at a moment you choose, often alongside a protective order or a move — it holds. Landlords and roommates, in outline: a camera in a genuinely shared common area raises a different question from one aimed into a tenant's private space, and a roommate's shared access ends where your private accounts and rooms begin. When account ownership and home ownership point different ways, ask a lawyer or legal aid.

Part 3. Finding hidden cameras and microphones

Start a physical sweep from the watcher's point of view: what would they want to see or hear? Beds, sofas, desks, and changing areas are the usual targets — stand at those spots and ask what faces them. Then check what commonly hides a lens or is commonly swapped for a recording version: smoke detectors, alarm clocks, chargers and charging blocks, mirrors, vents, air purifiers, and anything new, moved, or unexplained — a charger you do not recognize, a detector that appeared after a visit. Mirror tricks are unreliable; a suspicious mirror is a reason to document and ask for help, not proof either way.

For a lens check, use the method advocacy guidance publishes: in a darkened room, shine a phone flashlight slowly across surfaces and watch for a small, steady glint that behaves differently from the surface around it — lenses reflect distinctively. Work slowly, at several angles. A microphone may have no lens: it can be an ordinary-looking device out of place — an extra charger, a small box by an outlet, a "gift" that must stay plugged in. Found something? Follow the safety and evidence rule: photograph it in place from your safe device, note date, time, and room, and do not unplug, open, or throw it away before safety-planning and, where possible, speaking with police or an advocate — unplugging can destroy recordings and tells the watcher it was found. Rentals and short stays get a shorter sweep on arrival: detectors, clocks, chargers, vents facing beds and bathrooms. Many short-stay platforms require hosts to disclose cameras and bar them from private spaces — platform policy, enforced by the platform, separate from criminal law. Document an undisclosed device in place, leave if you feel unsafe, report it to the platform, and consider a police report.

Part 4. Finding watching that lives in accounts and networks

Much watching leaves no object in the room. Begin with a network inventory: every home router keeps a list of devices connected to its Wi-Fi, viewable by signing in to the router's administration page or companion app — the step NNEDV's smart-home guide walks survivors through. Note anything unidentifiable, and who set up each device. Network-scanner apps — named by category, since the category is what matters — list devices on your Wi-Fi and help match names and manufacturers to objects at home. View only: disconnecting a device is a change, and changes wait for the plan.

Next, audit accounts from your safe device. Email and social accounts keep signed-in device lists and recent sessions — look for phones, places, or times you do not recognize. Check location-sharing rosters: who can see your location right now, and did you agree to each name? Check family plans: the account holder may see lines, locations, or usage for everyone on the plan. Check for unknown Bluetooth trackers: phones can alert you to an unfamiliar tracker traveling with you, and a tracker in a bag, car, or coat is a physical find to document under Part 5. Finally, the signs of stalkerware — secretly installed monitoring software — from FTC consumer guidance and Coalition Against Stalkerware public guidance: battery draining faster than usual, data spiking, overheating or unexpected restarts, settings that change back, unfamiliar apps or processes, and, most telling, a partner who knows things never said near them — private conversation details, who you texted, where you went. No single sign proves it; Cornell's Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA) works from the documented pattern, checked systematically, safety plan first.

Part 5. Preserve the evidence before anything changes

Evidence disappears the moment settings change, devices reset, or accounts close — so preservation precedes removal, every time. From the safe device, screenshot and photograph devices in place, showing the room and the object's position, before anything is touched. Photograph account screens: signed-in devices, location-sharing rosters, doorbell and lock histories. Write dates and times down as events happen, in your own words. Where a platform offers an export of account activity, save it. Save revealing messages the same way — a message repeating something the watcher could only know by watching is often the most useful item you own.

Do not wipe, factory-reset, or "clean" a device that may hold evidence. Do not throw a suspicious device away. Do not hand anyone your only copy. Keep the record simple — four columns:

Preservation decides cases for the reason Part 7 returns to: the hardest question is usually proving who watched. Devices get explained away; accounts get called "shared." A dated log, photographs in place, exports, and messages showing secret knowledge connect a person to the watching as memory alone cannot. Keep the log where the watcher cannot reach it — with a trusted person, or in an account only you control — never only on a monitored device.

Part 6. Report it — in an order that keeps you safe

Report in the order of safety, not paperwork. In danger now? Call 911. Everything else moves at your pace, with an advocate's help in choosing. Local police are usually the first route for hidden devices and home surveillance: the non-emergency line when there is no immediate danger, and bring the evidence log — photographs in place, dates, account screens, messages. You need not have solved the case first; the log makes the pattern visible. For computer intrusion and account crimes, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center takes reports at ic3.gov. For stalkerware and technology fraud by companies, the FTC takes reports at ReportFraud.ftc.gov — Part 7 shows what it has done with them. In Massachusetts, the Attorney General's office (mass.gov) accepts consumer and civil-rights complaints, which matter when a seller, landlord, or company is involved. For account or SIM problems — a hijacked number, a family plan you cannot leave — your carrier's fraud department is the route; the companion wiretapping unit in this library covers phone-account crimes in more depth.

Protective orders are a pointer here, not a duplicate — this school's Advocacy materials walk through them step by step. Massachusetts abuse prevention orders under chapter 209A can order a person to stop abuse and have no contact, and advocates routinely help people ask the court to address technology — accounts, devices, tracking — within that protection. Bring the log to the advocate or court. And remember: a report is itself a record. Even when an agency cannot act at once, a dated complaint today supports every later step.

Part 7. Take legal action — and honest expectations

A lawyer's first job is matching law to facts. The federal Wiretap Act prohibits intentional interception of wire, oral, and electronic communications (18 U.S.C. § 2511) and gives the person whose communication was intercepted a civil suit: under 18 U.S.C. § 2520, they may recover damages as the statute provides, plus a reasonable attorney's fee and litigation costs, with other relief the court finds appropriate. Massachusetts is stricter in one way: chapter 272, § 99 defines interception as secretly hearing or recording a communication without the prior authority of all parties, makes willful interception a crime, and gives the person harmed a civil action under the same section. The secret-photograph law, chapter 272, § 105, is narrower — state its scope exactly: secretly photographing or electronically surveilling a person who is nude or partially nude, or their intimate parts, where they reasonably expect privacy. It does not cover every hidden camera. Invasion of privacy is also a civil claim in outline in many situations. Where a seller or device company is involved — stalkerware sold as a product, buyers deceived — Massachusetts chapter 93A may be argued; whether it fits is flagged plainly: a lawyer evaluates this.

Forum follows amount and remedy: smaller money claims generally fit Massachusetts small claims court, the informal court for claims up to $7,000 (mass.gov); larger claims, and claims seeking orders beyond money, generally belong in Superior Court. Free and lower-cost help exists — legal aid organizations, law-school clinics, lawyer-referral services listed through official sources such as mass.gov. Bring the log to the first meeting. Now the honest paragraph: attribution — proving who watched — is usually the hard part. The watcher will say the account was shared, the device a gift, the password known to anyone. Cases turn on the records that answer those claims — which is why Part 5 sits where it sits. Legal action takes time, and no lesson can promise an outcome; a documented pattern gives every lawyer, advocate, and agency something solid to act on, and returns the record of your own life to your control.

Words to know — Hidden Technology in the Home

• Administrator account — the main account controlling a device, app, or home network; it can add or remove users and change settings.
• Smart-home device — an everyday device — lock, thermostat, doorbell, speaker, camera — that connects to the internet and is viewed or controlled through an app.
• Stalkerware — software installed on a device without the owner's knowledge to secretly monitor location, messages, calls, photos, or online activity.
• Location sharing — a phone or app setting letting named people see where a device is, sometimes in real time, sometimes without a fresh warning.
• Bluetooth tracker — a small tag made to find lost items, such as keys, that can be misused to follow a person or their belongings.
• Connected-device list — the list a home router keeps of everything currently or recently connected to the home Wi-Fi.
• Evidence log — a dated written record of what was found or happened, kept to show the pattern to police, an advocate, or a court.
• Interception — secretly hearing or recording a wire or oral communication with a device, without the prior authority of all parties.
• Safety plan — a personal plan for staying safer, made — ideally with an advocate — before changes another person might notice.

Myths vs facts — Hidden Technology in the Home

• Myth: Watching a home takes satellite surveillance or equipment that sees through walls. Fact: The real vectors are ordinary: a shared password, an admin account never reclaimed, location sharing left on, a camera in a charger. Ordinary means findable — and documentable.
• Myth: If you find a hidden camera, rip it out immediately. Fact: Sudden removal can escalate danger and destroy evidence. Photograph it in place, log it, safety-plan; removal is a planned step.
• Myth: Changing every password at once is always safest. Fact: On a monitored account, instant changes announce what you know and can lock you out of your own records. Advocates plan changes from a safe device, in a protective order.
• Myth: No strange app icon means no stalkerware. Fact: Stalkerware is built to hide, sometimes under ordinary names. Behavior — battery drain, data spikes, a partner who knows what they should not — is often the clearer sign.
• Myth: Hidden watching is something strangers do. Fact: The most common watcher already has access — a partner, an ex, or the person who set the home up. Access, not exotic skill, is the usual key.

Think it through — Hidden Technology in the Home

The situation: Renee rents a small apartment. Her landlord, who lives out of state, had "the place freshened up" between tenants. On her third night she notices the smoke detector over the bedroom doorway has a tiny dark lens beside its sensor, and a small light that blinks even though the detector is hardwired. Her impulse is to tear it down and shout at the landlord. What does this unit tell her to do instead?

Walk it through: (1) Safety first — Part 1. She removes nothing and confronts no one tonight. From a safe device — her sister's phone — she calls the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-7233, for safety planning; the logic is the same whatever the relationship: no announced moves before documentation. (2) Identify, without disturbing — Part 3. The detector faces the bed — the watcher's-view question answers itself. She notes the lens and the unexplained light and compares the bathroom detector. (3) Preserve — Part 5. She photographs the detector in place and opens an evidence log: date, time, room, observations, photo names. Nothing is unplugged or wiped. (4) Report — Part 6. Unsafe tonight means 911; otherwise, police on the non-emergency line with the log, a complaint through the Massachusetts Attorney General's routes on mass.gov, and tenant advice from legal aid. (5) Legal action — Part 7. A lawyer assesses fit: § 105 only if the camera secretly surveilled her nude or partially nude or her intimate parts; § 99 if it secretly recorded sound; other privacy claims on the facts. Her photographs and log are what let any of those questions be answered at all.

Cases & codes to study — Hidden Technology in the Home

The two records below are enforcement records, labeled as such — one administrative action, one criminal prosecution. They show what the government has actually done about stalkerware; neither decides a private person's case by itself.

FTC, In the Matter of Support King, LLC (SpyFone), Docket No. C-4756 (Federal Trade Commission, 2021) — administrative enforcement record

• The facts: The FTC alleged that Support King, LLC (SpyFone.com) and its CEO sold stalkerware apps letting purchasers secretly monitor photos, messages, web histories, GPS locations, and other personal information on a phone without the owner's knowledge — and failed to secure the data collected.
• The question: Whether selling secret-surveillance software, and the handling of the harvested data, violated the Federal Trade Commission Act, and what remedy would protect the people monitored.
• The ruling and the outcome: By finalized consent order in December 2021, the FTC banned Support King and its CEO from offering, promoting, selling, or advertising any surveillance app, service, or business — its first such ban against a stalkerware operator — required deletion of the illegally collected information, and required notice to owners that their devices might have been monitored.
• Why it matters to you: Companies are part of this picture, not just individual watchers; reports to the FTC (Part 6) feed the record behind this ban.
• 📄 Official record: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/192-3003-support-king-llc-spyfonecom-matter (FTC case page); https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/12/ftc-finalizes-order-banning-stalkerware-provider-spyware-business (finalized-order announcement, December 2021).

United States v. Hammad Akbar (StealthGenie) (E.D. Va., 2014) — criminal enforcement record

• The facts: Akbar led the companies that sold StealthGenie, an app secretly installable on a phone that could intercept calls, messages, email, voicemail, photographs, and surrounding conversations, advertised as undetectable and untraceable. The Department of Justice announced the indictment as the first criminal case over advertising and selling a mobile spyware app.
• The question: Whether advertising and selling a surreptitious interception device is itself a federal crime, before any particular buyer's use is charged.
• The ruling and the outcome: On November 25, 2014, Akbar pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to sale of an interception device and advertisement of a known interception device, was sentenced to time served, ordered to pay a $500,000 fine, and forfeited the StealthGenie source code — the first criminal conviction for advertising and selling a stalking app.
• Why it matters to you: Sellers are reachable too; the interception laws below reach those who build and market the tools, so reports about products matter alongside reports about persons.
• 📄 Official record: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/pakistani-man-indicted-selling-stealthgenie-spyware-app (Department of Justice, E.D. Va.; the plea of November 25, 2014 was announced by the Department of Justice the same day).

The law itself — read the real words

• 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (U.S. Code) — the federal Wiretap Act prohibition on intentional interception, use, or disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications, except as the chapter specifically provides. Read it: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=2010&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-2010-title18-section2511
• 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (U.S. Code) — the Wiretap Act's civil action: the person whose communication was intercepted, disclosed, or intentionally used in violation of the chapter may sue for damages as the statute provides, punitive damages in appropriate cases, a reasonable attorney's fee and litigation costs, and other appropriate relief. Read it: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=2015&num=0&req=granuleid:USC-2015-title18-section2520
• Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 99 (Mass. Gen. Laws) — Massachusetts' interception law: secretly hearing or recording a wire or oral communication without the prior authority of all parties; willful interception is punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000, state prison for not more than five years, or jail or house of correction for not more than two and one-half years; paragraph Q gives the aggrieved person a civil action for actual damages of not less than liquidated damages of $100 per day of violation or $1,000, whichever is higher, plus punitive damages and a reasonable attorney's fee. Read it: https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/chapter272/section99
• Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 105 (Mass. Gen. Laws) — the secret-photograph law at its true scope: willfully photographing, videotaping, or electronically surveilling a person who is nude or partially nude, or the sexual or other intimate parts of a person under or around their clothing, secretly and without knowledge and consent where privacy is reasonably expected — up to two and one-half years in a house of correction, a fine of up to $5,000, or both, with separate heavier provisions for dissemination and for children. Read it: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section105

Where to read the real thing, free: U.S. Code at uscode.house.gov (https://uscode.house.gov), Massachusetts General Laws at malegislature.gov (https://malegislature.gov), FTC cases at ftc.gov (https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings), Justice Department releases at justice.gov (https://www.justice.gov), and federal court records through CourtListener (https://www.courtlistener.com).

Try this — Hidden Technology in the Home

• ☐ On a device only you control, open your router's connected-device list (Part 4) and write down anything you cannot identify. Note only — if cutting off access could put you at risk, change nothing yet.
• ☐ On a device only you control, open your location-sharing settings and write down who can see your location right now (Part 4). Keep the list with your evidence log.
• ☐ Start an evidence log somewhere the watcher cannot reach — paper with a trusted person, or an account only you control — using Part 5's four columns; enter one dated line today.
• ☐ Find the signed-in devices list on one account you control (Part 4) and note anything unfamiliar — without signing anything out in the moment if that could be unsafe.
• ☐ Save the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-7233, in a safe phone under an ordinary name, with the FBI IC3 (ic3.gov) and FTC (ReportFraud.ftc.gov) routes beside it (Part 6).

Resources to keep — Hidden Technology in the Home

• 911 — if you are in danger right now.
• National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-7233 (call or text), thehotline.org — safety planning with an advocate, including technology safety planning, before you change devices or accounts.
• NNEDV Safety Net — nnedv.org — the National Network to End Domestic Violence's technology-safety resources for survivors (TechSafety.org).
• FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) — ic3.gov — report computer intrusion and account crimes.
• Federal Trade Commission — ReportFraud.ftc.gov — report stalkerware and technology fraud; consumer guidance on stalkerware at consumer.ftc.gov.
• mass.gov — official Massachusetts information, including the Attorney General's complaint routes and legal-aid information.

What you earned / what's next — Hidden Technology in the Home

✅ Hidden Technology in the Home complete (quiz score 80% or higher): You can state the safety-first rule, explain how admin accounts, smart-home devices, hidden cameras, and account access are used to watch a home, run a basic physical sweep and account-and-network audit, keep an evidence log, name the reporting routes in a safe order, and describe the main legal actions — and their honest limits — in general terms.

Your certificate

Minister Destiny Testimony Schools Certificate of Completion — Hidden Technology in the Home

This certificate is presented by Muslim Ordained Minister Destiny Marie Morgan

Awarded to: ______________________________ (write your name here after you download — your name is never collected or stored by this school)

Date completed: ______________

You deserve a home that is only yours. You now know how watching hides in ordinary devices and accounts, how to document it safely, and where to take that record — at your pace, with your safety first. — Minister Destiny Marie Morgan

This is a certificate of educational completion from Minister Destiny Testimony Schools. It is not a state license, a government certification, or legal training for representing anyone.

What's next: Return to the Topic Library for your next Year 1 Foundations unit.

Sources

• National Network to End Domestic Violence, Safety Net Project (nnedv.org) — "How Webcams and Technology Privacy Impact Survivors" (https://nnedv.org/latest_update/webcams-technology-privacy-impact-survivors/) — spyware/webcam misuse, safe devices and accounts; Parts 1, 4.
• National Network to End Domestic Violence, Safety Net Project (nnedv.org / TechSafety.org) — "Smart Home Devices: Survivor Privacy and Safety for the 'Smart' Home" (Survivors' Guide to the Smart Home, 2023) (https://ta2ta.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1304-nnedv-survivor-s-guide-to-smart-home-2023.pdf) — smart-home misuse, router lists, documenting first; Parts 1, 2, 4, 5.
• Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA), Cornell Tech (ceta.tech.cornell.edu) — Resources (https://ceta.tech.cornell.edu/resources); clinic overview (https://ceta.tech.cornell.edu/) — systematic checking with safety planning; Part 4 and the university-standard check.
• Federal Trade Commission (consumer.ftc.gov) — "Stalkerware: What To Know" (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/stalkerware-what-know) — detection signs, safety-first warning, documenting before resetting; Parts 1, 4, 5.
• Federal Trade Commission (ftc.gov) — In the Matter of Support King, LLC (SpyFone.com), Docket No. C-4756 (https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/192-3003-support-king-llc-spyfonecom-matter); "FTC Finalizes Order Banning Stalkerware Provider from Spyware Business," December 2021 (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/12/ftc-finalizes-order-banning-stalkerware-provider-spyware-business) — Cases & codes record.
• Department of Justice (justice.gov) — "Pakistani Man Indicted For Selling 'Stealthgenie' Spyware App," E.D. Va. (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/pakistani-man-indicted-selling-stealthgenie-spyware-app) — Akbar indictment record; plea of November 25, 2014 announced the same day.
• 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (U.S. Code) — interception and disclosure prohibited. Verified at uscode.house.gov.
• 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (U.S. Code) — recovery of civil damages authorized. Verified at uscode.house.gov.
• Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 99 (Mass. Gen. Laws) — interception of wire and oral communications, incl. paragraph Q civil remedy. Verified at malegislature.gov.
• Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 105 (Mass. Gen. Laws) — secret photographing/surveilling of a nude or partially nude person or intimate parts. Verified at malegislature.gov.
• Mass.gov — "The Massachusetts Consumer Protection Law" (https://www.mass.gov/info-details/the-massachusetts-consumer-protection-law) — ch. 93A outline, Part 7.
• Mass.gov — "Massachusetts law about small claims and bringing a claim to court" (https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-small-claims-and-bringing-a-claim-to-court) — small claims $7,000 or less, Part 7.
• Mass.gov — "Find out if you're eligible to request an abuse prevention order" (https://www.Mass.gov/info-details/find-out-if-youre-eligible-to-request-an-abuse-prevention-order) — ch. 209A pointer, Part 6.

Your Progress — On Your Device Only — Hidden Technology in the Home

• Learning outcomes: On completing this unit, the student can:
• state the safety-first rule and why removal, password changes, and confrontation wait for a safety plan made from a safe device;
• explain how administrator accounts and smart-home devices monitor and control a home, and name common signs of misuse;
• describe a physical sweep for hidden cameras and microphones, including the watcher's-view check and the flashlight lens-glint check;
• describe an account-and-network audit: router connected-device list, signed-in device lists, location-sharing rosters, family-plan access, tracker alerts, and stalkerware signs;
• build a four-column evidence log and explain why preservation precedes any change;
• list the reporting routes in a safe order (911, local police, FBI IC3, FTC, Massachusetts Attorney General, carrier fraud department) and outline the main legal actions and the attribution problem.
• Study time: Approximately 1 hour — an estimate covering reading, activities, and the test. Students move at their own pace.
• Assessment: A 10-question test drawn only from this unit's lesson. 80% or higher passes and earns the unit certificate. Answers are not shown; your score is saved only in your own browser on this device, and retakes are allowed.
• Level: Topic Library — Year 1 (Foundations) · Adult school · working rank on completion path: Freshman → Sophomore.
• Version: Version 1.0 — October 2026.

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