About CreepWatch

Our mission is to leverage the skill, passion, aaaaand the competitive nature of the open source research community to support and empower victims of cyberstalking, abuse, and voyeurism around the world.

CreepWatch helps reduce harm from non‑consensual surveillance by making it easier to recognise, report, and learn from real examples of hidden cameras. The platform balances practical safety guidance with a community-driven approach that minimizes data collection for contributors who opt in.

1. Users upload photos of hidden cameras they’ve found.
2. Community members vote on images across several safety factors.
3. High-quality reports are highlighted on the home page to help others learn.
4. Users who opt-in can get awarded points for finding hidden cameras and submitting their photos, rating current contributions, or validating the presence of other users’ finds (feature in-development)

The site is private-by-design: we collect minimal information and provide opt-in features for users who want to participate in the leaderboard. Submissions are reviewed to reduce abuse and protect contributors and subjects.

CreepWatch supports privacy-conscious individuals, OSINT contributors, and those seeking victim-focused education about identifying and responding to unauthorized surveillance.

Future plans include formalizing our organizational structure, partnering with advocacy organizations and survivor support service providers, and establishing a means of monetization without impacting user privacy to fund continued operations and direct survivor support.

Originally put together by organizers of an anti-surveillance and anti-censorship hackathon, CreepWatch was founded and built by a group of friends and co-conspirators dedicated to creating user-friendly tools to fight oppression. We are hackers, advocates, developers, linguists, survivors, threat analysts, and dissidents.

This site uses a modern full-stack Node architecture, leveraging containerization for deployment and modular code organization for maintainability.

• Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vite, CSS Modules
• Backend: Node.js, Express, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
• Containerization: Docker
• Networking: Nginx, Traefik, Cloudflared, Tor

We can all do more together than any of us could alone. These are just a few of the ways you can contribute to CreepWatch:

• Submit your images: In addition to making for a pretty fun game, the data you submit can help identify potential victims of abuse, add to the body of research on criminals and abusers, be leveraged in lawsuits against perpetrators, and more.
• Volunteer to Admin: Interested in becoming an admin and helping us take a first pass at identifying whether a submission is appropriate for our platform?
• Provide your expertise: Know anything about the law, electromagnetic spectrum operations, database management, front- or back-end development, survivor-centered communications and care, victim advocacy, privacy and security, or grassroots organizing in locations around the globe? Come help us scale our platform and services.
• Donate Equipment: Whether you’re a manufacturer of surveillance detection equipment or just an aficionado with extra hardware lying around, send us your stuff! A future phase of CreepWatch is to give or loan equipment to potential victims so they can identify surveillance cameras in their own environments.
• Partner with us: If your organization supports victims of cyber stalking, abuse, non-consensual image sharing, or intimate partner violence, reach out to be included on our list of resources for survivors.
• Ask for a demo/corporate training: Join our waitlist for counter-surveillance trainings and know your fees are going to support victim services (feature in-development)

If you have questions about our work, need technical support, or want to join our team, create a login and message the admins via the chatbox (feature in-development). Note: not for use in emergency situations. Contact your local emergency response service.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @loremipsum

BlueSky: @loremipsum

GitHub: github.com