A Taiwanese man was sentenced to five months in jail and ordered to pay more than $4,700 for using a robot vacuum to secretly record his wife’s affair.
While the court ruled that the husband had violated his cheating wife’s privacy, the Taiwanese man also won a civil lawsuit, resulting in his wife and her lover being ordered to pay him thousands in compensation, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.
The Taiwanese man, whose name has not been made public, married his wife in 2021. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, prompting him to review security footage from a parking garage, which reportedly revealed an man driving his wife home.
Three months later, the husband remotely activated the robot vacuum cleaner inside the home, and discovered his wife engaged in an intimate encounter with another man via the robot’s live feed.
From there, he began recording footage of his wife’s affair in order to collect evidence he had planned to use later for a legal claim.
Video footage reportedly showed his wife changing her clothing, embracing the other man, and moving about the house naked while her lover lay on the sofa.
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