Airbnb Sued for Negligence Over Hidden Camera in Rental Home (1)

Airbnb Inc. knows that guests routinely find hidden cameras in homes rented on its platform but fails to warn guests or take steps to prevent them from being recorded, a suit filed Tuesday in San Francisco alleges.

The rental platform “does not do the bare minimum to protect its guests from the trauma and humiliation inflicted on them by the non-consensual recording of their most private moments,” the complaint says.

In an event that was “entirely foreseeable” to Airbnb, three women, named as “Jane Doe” in the lawsuit, were recorded in the bedroom and bathroom of a rental in Texas ...