Will your robotic vacuum snitch on you? What home devices mean for privacy and the law

Devices in homes now generate evidence continuously and often invisibly, while the governing law remains a patchwork.

A husband in Taiwan suspected his wife of having an affair. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, and garage video showed an unfamiliar man driving his wife there. Three months later, he opened their robot vacuum’s app to speak with her and saw an intimate encounter through its live camera.