Husband JAILED for ‘invasion of privacy’ after catching wife cheating on robot vacuum cleaner’s camera

NewsWorld News A MAN was jailed for an “invasion of privacy” after using a robot vacuum cleaner to spy on his cheating wife. He was sentenced to five months behind bars after recording the intimate footage without his partner’s knowledge – and using it in court during the divorce proceedings. The incident happened in the Taiwanese city of Taoyuan in 2022, over two years after the couple got married. Suspicion first plagued the husband’s mind after he began noticing small items that did not belong to either of them, in their holiday home – like a toothbrush. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! After reviewing surveillance footage from a parking garage, he spotted an unknown man who had previously driven his wife home. Several months later, he activated the remote vacuum cleaner, supposedly to use its built-in audio feature to communicate with her. This is when the husband witnessed an intimate encounter with another man. Seeking evidence for a legal claim, he pressed the record button, South China Morning Post reported. Footage showed his wife undressing and embracing another man, who was seen lying on the sofa. Flaunting the evidence in court, the man sued his wife and her lover. Most read in The Sun A civil court said the affair and conduct had “gone beyond the bounds of friendship” – and he was eventually awarded just over £11,000 in damages. Turning the tables on him, the wife then dragged her husband to criminal court over a privacy infringement. While the man argued that he did it to gather evidence, Taoyuan District Court ruled in her favour, arguing that it did not give him the right to spy on his partner. Ruling that there was still an expectation of privacy and the wife had not consented to be filmed naked, the man was sentenced to five months in prison. He will also have to pay her almost £3,500. In Taiwan, secretly recording or photographing another person’s private activities, intimate spaces, or bodily privacy without consent is a criminal offence. This case has also set a precedent that personal or marital disputes do not override the right to privacy, meaning that illegally obtained recordings are often inadmissible and actually lead to prosecution. 1 comment1