audio bug

Covert listening device

An audio bug is a small, hidden device used for covert surveillance—a microphone concealed to secretly record or transmit conversations.

Intelligence agencies plant audio bugs in rooms, phones, or objects.

The term also applies to software that secretly activates a device's microphone: The app contained an audio bug that recorded users without consent.

Related

device · microphone · spy · secret agent · covert ops · eavesdrop · transmitter · hidden · covert · dead drop · recording · tap · planted · sweep · detect · glitch · static · feedback

Categories
Opposites
surveillance modality

audio bughidden camera

Concealed recording device

pinhole camera · nanny cam · body camera · motion sensor · body cam

privacy function

audio bugwhite noise generator

Machine producing steady ambient hum

signal jammer · Faraday cage

covertness of monitoring

audio bugsecurity camera

Mounted recording device

public address system

Family

audio, bug, audible, audibly, audibility, inaudible, inaudibly, audition, auditor

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G