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- Airbnb hosts are hotly debating the appropriateness of security cameras.
- Some guests and hosts say it's an invasion of privacy for vacationers.
- Other hosts say they're necessary to run the rentals and sometimes even helpful for guests.
Airbnb host Jen Kelman worried about the angle of the security camera on her two-bedroom rental in Pine, Arizona, a small mountain town two hours north of Phoenix.
She installed it as the "eyes and ears" for her rental property, since she lives in Phoenix. But Kelman also was anticipating that some guests might get creeped out at the prospects of being captured at any time by the camera's sweeping view of the front of the home.