The complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras to expose abuse or wrongdoing.Secret filming is no longer the preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing undercover documentaries and wearing secret cameras, this book explains covert recording for the general public, including specific advice on the practicalities of using a phone or covert camera to record evidence. It considers the legal and ethical issues and provides vital information for anyone who may use or encounter secret filming, including the people or organisations that might be filmed, regulators, social workers, local government officials and anyone who may encounter it in court. It also looks to the future of covert filming and the implications of technological advances, such as drone cameras.

Introduction. 1. How Did We Get Here?: The History of Covert Recording. Undercover Tales: Real Families Doing Secret Filming. 2. 'Proper' Secret Cameras: Secret Filming Using a Covert Camera. Undercover Tales: Eek! Nearly Being Discovered. 3. Using a Phone Camera, Secretly: Covert Recording Using a Mobile or Cellular Telephone. Undercover Tales: Sneaky Phone Filming. 4. Do You Really Have To?: Ethical Dilemmas - Privacy, the Public Interest and Deception. Undercover Tales: Victorian Infiltrations: Heroes and Anti-Heroes. 5. Do People Get in Trouble?: Secret Filming and the Law. Undercover Tales: Whistleblowers: Threats and Fears. 6. What You Don't Realise...: The Challenges That Most Often Surprise People. Undercover Tales: Stories of Physical and Emotional Pain. 7. What Do You Do With It?: What Happens Next, After the Camera is Switched Off. Undercover Tales: Secret Filming in Care Homes. 8. How's It Gonna End?: The Next Generation of Covert Cameras, and the Future of Secret Filming. Undercover Tales: Back to the Future: Old Problems, New Cameras.