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Here is another way to prevent losing your privacy without your knowledge.

How many times have you stayed in a hotel and questioned the privacy of the tinted fancy mirrors in your room?

Most businesses use actual security mirrors legally. However as with everything else in life, … there are always a few people that use things illegally.

These mirrors called security mirrors allow people to see out from behind the mirror, but people on the reflection side can’t see past the reflection (like a regular mirror).

Most people out there may be asking, … ya but how can a regular person tell the difference between the two types of mirrors, it’s impossible, isn’t it?

Actually, it’s not impossible. Yes, a regular person can identify a security mirror in less than a few seconds without the use of any special tools or training.

Here’s how you can tell. To do this you can use the edge of a coin, tip of a pen cap or even the tip of a long fingernail.

Go to the mirror in the bathroom of your home or apartment. Place the tip of your object against the glass and while it is in place, step to the side just a bit.

Look closely at the difference between the actual object and it’s reflection. A honest and trusted mirror will have a gap between the object and it’s reflection. The gap will differ from a sixteenth of a inch to almost a eighth of a inch or more, but there will be a gap. The object and it’s reflection will ‘NOT’ touch each other.

Now locate a security mirror and perform the same steps by placing the object against the glass, stepping to the side and examine the difference between the object and it’s reflection. Notice with a security mirror, … the objects have absolutely no gap. They touch each other.

The security mirror, otherwise know as a spy mirror will not surrender a gap of any size between the object and it’s reflection.

Security mirrors have their legitimate uses in places like the office doors of bank managers in banks so the manager can watch bank activity without discomforting the customers or employees.

Some gas stations will have these mirrors in the office door of the supervisors office to watch over the business activities without being detected. Post offices use these mirrors in many different ways to watch postal lobbies to ensure everyone’s safety or even watch disturbances without being detected as a witness.

Police departments use these mirrors to protect innocent people who have to pick a suspect out of a police line-up.

Some jewelry stores use security mirrors the size of the wall behind the jewelry counter, because of the value of the merchandise in the store.

In such cases the other side of the mirror may have people watching over the area, or, … the other side of the mirror may have any number of camera’s watching everyone and everything incase of a jewelry robbery.

There are some places the use of security mirrors should not be used, and in most cases is against the law to do so.

These area’s include dressing rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, hotel, motel, boarding rooms or anywhere else the human body can be found in compromised privacy situations.