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> 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.

> 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/

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.

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