Taiwan man jailed for using robot vacuum to secretly film cheating wife
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- A Taiwanese man remotely activated a robot vacuum’s camera to record his wife with another man at a holiday home.
- He had won a civil case and secured damages, but his wife later sued him for filming private footage without her consent.
- A court sentenced him to five months in prison and fined him more than US$4,700 for violating his wife’s privacy.
A Taiwanese man who used a robot vacuum to secretly film his wife’s alleged affair has been sentenced to five months in prison and fined more than US$4,700.
The unidentified man first found a used toothbrush at the couple’s holiday home in September 2023. He then reviewed CCTV footage from a parking garage, which showed an unknown man driving his wife home.
Three months later, he remotely activated the robot vacuum through a mobile phone application. The device recorded his wife alone with another man. He used the footage to sue his wife and her lover, seeking about US$68,000 in damages for violating his marital rights.
The court ordered the couple to pay him about US$17,000. His wife then filed a countersuit, accusing him of recording private video without her permission. The privacy case resulted in the prison sentence and fine.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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