illegal. You can shoot the camera as evidence to sue the hotel.

of course, if you violate your privacy, you can sue him. Because a private room is a relatively private space relative to other parts of the hotel, guests can choose guests who are not disturbed. Cameras should not be installed. If the hotel installs cameras for its own supervision, it should also fulfill the notification obligation.

as far as your description is concerned, it is obvious that the hotel deliberately disguised the camera and didn't want the guests to know that it obviously violated personal privacy. According to the provisions of the national public security law: illegally tracking others, monitoring their homes, installing eavesdropping equipment, privately photographing their private lives, and monitoring their indoor conditions. This is a typical invasion of privacy. However, in China, privacy protection is mainly attributed to the right of reputation.

Extended information:

According to Article 38 of the Constitution, the personal dignity of Chinese people and citizens is inviolable. It is forbidden to insult, slander and falsely accuse or frame citizens in any way.

Article 39 The residences of the Chinese people and citizens are inviolable. It is forbidden to illegally search or illegally invade citizens' houses.

Article 41 The freedom and privacy of communication of the Chinese people and citizens are protected by law. No organization or individual may infringe upon citizens' freedom and privacy of communication for any reason, except for the need of national security or the investigation of criminal offences, when the public security organs or procuratorial organs check the communication according to the procedures prescribed by law.

according to article 245th of the criminal law, anyone who illegally searches another person's body or residence, or illegally invades another person's residence, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

any judicial officer who abuses his power and commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment.

article 246th whoever publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights.

the crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be dealt with only after being told, except those that seriously endanger social order and national interests.

Article 252 Whoever conceals, destroys or illegally opens other people's letters and infringes upon citizens' right to freedom of correspondence, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than one year or criminal detention.

article 253 postal workers who open, conceal or destroy mail and telegrams without permission shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention.

whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and steals property shall be convicted and given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of article 264 of this law.

article 253-1 any functionary of a state organ or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units who, in violation of state regulations, sells or illegally provides to others the personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or shall only be fined.

whoever steals or illegally obtains the above information by other means, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

if a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph.

According to Article 111 of the General Principles of the Civil Law, citizens have the right to portrait, and citizens' portraits shall not be used for profit without their consent.

article 111 citizens and legal persons enjoy the right of reputation, and their personal dignity is protected by law. it is forbidden to damage the reputation of citizens and legal persons by insulting or slandering.

Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Implementation of the General Principles of the Civil Law

141. Those who publicize other people's privacy in written or oral form, or fabricate facts to openly vilify other people's personality, and damage their reputation by insulting or slandering others, which has certain influence, shall be deemed as acts that infringe upon citizens' right to reputation.

defaming or slandering the reputation of a legal person in written or oral form, thus causing damage to the legal person, shall be deemed as an act of infringing the reputation right of a legal person.

141. Anyone who embezzles or imitates another person's name and causes damage shall be deemed to have infringed on the right to name.

According to the Tort Liability Law

China's national conditions and relevant information abroad, the following acts can be classified as infringement of privacy:

1. Publicizing a citizen's name, portrait, address, ID number and telephone number without his permission.

2. Invade or search other people's houses illegally, or otherwise disturb other people's living peace.

3. Illegally stalking others, monitoring their residences, installing eavesdropping equipment, taking private photos of others' private lives, and spying on others' indoor conditions.

4. Illegally spying on other people's property status or publishing their property status without their permission.

5. Open other people's letters privately, peek at other people's diaries, spy on other people's private documents and make them public.

6. Investigate and spy on other people's social relations and make them illegal.

7. Interfere with the sexual life of other couples or investigate and publish them.

8. Make others' extramarital sex life known to the public.

9. divulge citizens' personal materials or make them public or expand the scope of publicity.

11. Collect purely personal information that citizens are unwilling to disclose to the public.

11. Publicize other people's secrets without their permission.