[deckar01]

> He looked through a window and saw black cables taped to the walls. A man was typing on a laptop sitting next to what appeared to be a robot.

This sounds a lot like criminal invasion of privacy.

Edit: What are you downvoting? You can’t secretly watch Airbnb guests through a window you rented to them for the same reason you can’t put spy cameras in their bathroom.

[JumpCrisscross]

> You can’t secretly watch Airbnb guests through a window

Systematically? No. Casually? Of course you can. Why wouldn’t you be allowed to?

These aren’t corporate landlords, after all.

[deckar01]

> The “Peeping Tom” Laws Penal Code 647(j) explicitly states it is not a defense to this charge that the defendant is a cohabitant, landlord, tenant, cotenant, employer, employee, or business partner or associate of the victim.

https://kelmanskylaw.com/crimes/peeping-tom-law-pc-647j-ca/

[card_zero]

Here the "reasonable expectation of privacy" is not because they were in the nude, but because they were secretly using your home to test clumsy robots and wouldn't like to be caught.

[Psillisp]

Sounds like looking though a window.