History Main / SecurityBlindspot

* In ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Elisa finds out that in the facility she works at, there's a narrow hallway where some of the workers go to smoke in (open) secret despite there being a security camera. Apparently, all they had to do was simply budge the camera, to which Security turns a blind eye, and they'd never get caught. [[ChekhovsGun This area gets used later by Elisa and her friends to exfiltrate the Asset while Security assumes it's just another smoke break]].

* In ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Elisa finds out that in the facility she works at, there's a narrow hallway where some of the workers go to smoke in secret despite there being a security camera. Apparently, all they had to do was simply budge the camera and they'd never get caught. [[ChekhovsGun This area gets used later by Elisa and her friends to exfiltrate the Asset]].

* ''Anime/CastletownDandelion'': Attempted, with varying degrees of success, by Akane Sakuraba, to preserve her privacy. As she's a princess, and there are over 2000 security cameras monitoring the city she lives in, it's not an easy feat. And the camera pattern gets shifted from time to time to make sure she can't evade the cameras all the time. Once in a while, she'll use her power over gravity to fly, putting her above the scope of the cameras, but this has the disadvantage of providing a PantyShot to anyone below her, and as mentioned before, she's shy. So she can't use that option often.

* ''Anime/CastletownDandelion'': Attempted, with varying degrees of success, by Akane Sakuraba, to preserve her privacy. As she's a princess, and there are over 2000 security cameras monitoring the city she lives in, it's not an easy feat. And the camera pattern gets shifted from time to time to make sure she can't evade the cameras all the time. Once in a while she'll use her power over gravity to fly, putting her above the scope of the cameras, but this has the disadvantage of providing a PantyShot to anyone below her, and as mentioned before, she's shy. So she can't use that option often.

* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': A shootout at a grocery store involving armed robbers and some hapless police who just happened to walk into the situation causes a review of the store's security, including the video feed. They discover that the crooks came in from the rear loading bay, and that the camera had been tilted off-kilter the day before by a disgruntled worker who was furious with management for not giving her full-time employment, meaning she didn't qualify for benefits.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': It's revealed that corrections officers at a New York prison have been exploiting holes in the security cameras to force themselves on female inmates, particularly and especially the blind that is the prison chapel, which has no coverage so that prisoners will feel comfortable offering confession.

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* Many modern security cameras are under reflective one-way domes that prevent people from knowing which direction they're pointed at any given point.

* There's the Creator/{{BBC}} drama ''Hot Money'', which was based on a real-life case where women working at a Bank of England depot, which destroyed time-served bank-notes, chose to reprieve old notes from the furnace and give them a new lease of life. Getting on for two or three million pounds in very old notes were diverted into caches and secret bank accounts before the Bank of England caught on. As cleaners were involved in the scam, they elected to clean the cameras and their lenses at ''just'' the right moment, thus blocking the shot whilst others behind them stole arm-loads of notes. All the camera saw at that moment would be a cleaner legitimately polishing the lens with a cloth.

* In ''Film/TheInvisbleMan2020'', [[spoiler:the protagonist uses this as part of her ploy to kill the titular character: She makes it appear that he slits his own throat on camera while wearing an invisibility suit, leaves the room and re-enters, screams in horror and calls 911 while sobbing, then slowly backs out of view of the camera. When out of view, she changes her expression to a satisfied smirk, and utters the word "Surprise."]]

* ''Anime/CastletownDandelion'': Attempted, with varying degrees of success, by Akane Sakuraba, to preserver her privacy. As she's a princess, and there are over 2000 security cameras monitoring the city she lives in, it's not an easy feat. And the camera pattern gets shifted from time to time to make sure she can't evade the cameras all the time. Once in a while she'll use her power over gravity to fly, putting her above the scope of the cameras, but this has the disadvantage of providing a PantyShot to anyone below her, and as mentioned before, she's shy. So she can't use that option often.

* Many modern security cameras are under reflective domes that prevent people from knowing which direction they're pointed at any given point.

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* There's the Creator/{{BBC}} drama ''Hot Money'', which was based on a real-life case where women working at a Bank of England depot, which destroyed time-served bank-notes, chose to reprieve old notes from the furnace and give them a new lease of life. Getting on for two or three million pounds in very old notes were diverted into caches and secret bank accounts before the Bank of England caught on. As cleaners were involved in the scam, they elected to clean the cameras and their lenses at ''just'' the right moment - thus blocking the shot whilst others behind them stole arm-loads of notes. All the camera saw at that moment would be a cleaner legitimately polishing the lens with a cloth.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E08Dax Dax]]", Jadzia - [[TheNthDoctor the host of the Dax symbiont]] - is kidnapped from the titular space station by Klaestrons, who got the security sensor information from the Cardassians who had previously occupied the station. Luckily, the ship was stopped before it could escape.

* ''Film/Oceans8'': Mixed with CameraSpoofing, as the crew is able to hack the cameras beforehand and over time slowly shift their movement patterns to introduce blind spots where none previously existed without drawing alarm.

* ''Film/''Oceans8'': Mixed with CameraSpoofing, as the crew is able to hack the cameras beforehand and over time slowly shift their movement patterns to introduce blind spots where none previously existed without drawing alarm.

* ''Film/{{Oceans 8}}: Mixed with CameraSpoofing, as the crew is able to hack the cameras beforehand and over time slowly shift their movement patterns to introduce blind spots where none previously existed without drawing alarm.

Of course, a good detective or head of security will know that the use of camera blinds, which only the guards who maintain the system should be 100% aware of, could mean an inside job when a crime is committed or the system breached.

* ''Anime/CastletownDandelion'': Attempted, with varying degrees of success, by Akane Sakuraba, to preserver her privacy. As she's a princess, and there are over 2000 security cameras monitoring the city she lives in, it's not an easy feat. And the camera pattern gets shifted from time to time to make sure she can't evade the cameras all the time. Once in awhile she'll use her power over gravity to fly, putting her above the scope of the cameras, but this has the disadvantage of providing a PantyShot to anyone below her, and as mentioned before, she's shy. So she can't use that option often.

* ''Film/{{Oceans 8}}: Mixed with CameraSpoofing, as the crew is able to hack the camera's beforehand and over time slowly shift their movement patterns to introduce blind-spots where none previously existed without drawing alarm.

* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': A shootout at a grocery store involving armed robbers and some hapless police who just happened to walk into the situation causes a review of the store's security, including the video feed. They discover that the crooks came in from the rear loading bay, and that the camera had been tilted off kilter the day before by a disgruntled worker who was furious with management for not giving her full-time employment, meaning she didn't qualify for benefits.

** "The Inside Job", when the team has to retrieve Parker from Wakefield Agriculture, a building guarded by a dreaded Steranko security system, Nate says they need to find a way to get in without tripping the alarms. Eliot suggests that corporate bigwigs might not be willing to sacrifice their privacy, and Hardison quickly discovers that he's right, and directs him to a corner office that he can enter from using the window washing apparatus.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Invoked by Mycroft, who phones John and directs his attention to several cameras in security conscious England, then deliberately has the cameras pan so that they're ''not'' looking at John. Basically sending the message, "I can do anything I want to you and no one will see." John, to his credit, tells Mycroft that it's a "clever trick" but that he could have just called him on his phone.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' includes surveillance cameras, which have a blind spot directly underneath the camera, and who's vision cone is shown on the radar. Alternatively, they can be destroyed by explosives, with later games allowing using first-person view to shoot cameras.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': The first stage have James Bond infiltrating Lachaise's penthouse, the second floor which contains five cameras, but also conveniently-placed alcoves for players to control Bond to duck into and avoid detection (alternatively, just [[DestroyTheSecurityCamera shoot away with Bond's Walther PP7]]). Finishing the level without being detected once will net a higher score.

Compare DestroyTheSecurityCamera.