Mirrielees residents were put on alert after two occupants found a recording device outside their room on Monday, May 17. Inside the device was a flash drive with video images of the two.

“A white canister was found on a patio,” wrote Mirrielees Resident Fellow James Cadena in an e-mail to residents on May 19. “It looks like an industrial air freshener or some kind of smoke detector. It has an adhesive strip on the back which could attach to a wall. The object was set up on a table near the window of one of the residents.”

The Stanford Department of Public Safety responded to the incident. Cadena was not immediately available for comment.

“When they [the residents] discovered it and brought it in, they were able to eject a sun disk which, when inserted into a laptop, showed videos of the occupants,” Cadena wrote. “It seems this device had been in and around the patio for some weeks but had not been poised in such an obvious manner to record. The police have this device in hand and are carrying out an investigation.”

The Stanford Department of Public Safety told The Daily on Thursday that there were no developments they could discuss.