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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? December 2022 In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes--including a particularly revealing shot of a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sitting on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh. The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot's Roomba robot vacuum, a company now owned by Amazon.