06 · Privacy
Bug Sweeps & Electronic Privacy
The industry calls it TSCM — technical surveillance countermeasures. You'd call it making sure nobody is listening who shouldn't be, and that the internet knows less about your family than it does today.
Why People Call
Surveillance got cheap. Suspicion got reasonable.
A capable listening device costs less than dinner downtown and hides in a phone charger. Trackers go on cars in seconds. The people who deploy them aren't spies — they're business rivals, litigious counterparties, aggrieved ex-employees, and occasionally someone inside your own household.
Clients call us before board-level conversations, during disputes and divorces, after a suspicious discovery, when a term sheet is circulating — or simply on a schedule, the way you'd audit anything else that matters. A professional sweep replaces the low-grade hum of suspicion with an answer.
What we sweep & secure
- Homes & estates. Residences, guest houses, and home offices — including post-construction and post-staff-turnover baselines.
- Offices & boardrooms. Executive suites and meeting spaces ahead of sensitive discussions, deals, and board cycles.
- Vehicles, boats & aircraft. Physical and electronic inspection for tracking and listening devices.
- Digital exposure. Data-broker removal, social-media hygiene for the family, and shrinking the public record that ties your name to your addresses.
- Ongoing privacy programs. Scheduled sweeps and continuous footprint monitoring for households that host, hire, and transact at volume.
Method
How a sweep actually works
Discreet scheduling
Sweeps are scheduled when spaces are empty — and communicated off the channels we're about to inspect. If a device exists, we don't want it hearing the appointment.
Technical inspection
Professional RF spectrum analysis, physical search, and inspection of wiring, fixtures, and electronics — the unglamorous, methodical work that actually finds things.
Findings & evidence handling
If we find something, we document it properly — preserving your legal options — and walk you through what it is, what it heard, and what to do next.
Hardening
Every sweep ends with practical recommendations so the same vulnerability doesn't return with the next contractor, house guest, or hire.
Questions
What people ask — usually quietly
I think my house or car is bugged. What should I do right now?
Don't search on your own devices or discuss your suspicion in the spaces in question. Call us from a different location on a different phone — 866.960.7475 — and we'll take it from there. Most suspicions turn out to be unfounded; the ones that aren't need careful handling from the first minute.
How often should a sweep be done?
Event-driven at minimum: before sensitive negotiations, after staff departures or contractor work, during disputes. Households and offices with steady exposure typically move to a quarterly or semi-annual schedule.
Can you really get my information off the internet?
Much of it, yes. Data brokers respond to structured removal processes, and public-record exposure can often be reduced going forward. What can't be erased can usually be decoupled from your current addresses and routines — we're honest about the difference.
Is the sweep itself confidential?
Completely. Unmarked arrival, plain-clothes technicians, findings delivered to you alone. Even within your household, only the people you designate will know it happened.
Next Step
Certainty is quieter than suspicion.
If something feels off — or you just want a baseline — the conversation is confidential either way.
Prefer to talk? 866.960.7475 · info@orbitalrisk.com