Anonymous wrote:OP here- thanks to all who have provided useful information.

I will be filing a police report today. Friend moved out her home with her husband last night and filed paperwork for divorce yesterday. She decided to tell me about the video after first consulting with her lawyer.

I talk to her this morning to get a little clarification before making my decision to file a report. She found the video in an email in folder in a yahoo account. Which tells me he recorded the video, then sent it to himself... to do what, I'm not sure. Distribute? Personal use? I have no idea. And let it suffice that the the "explaination" for how the husband says it accidentially happened does not come anywhere close to adding up. Anywhere, clearly the original recording exists somewhere, in addition to the copy my friend came across in the email account. Even if she deleted the email, it can be recovered.

Other than that, I am staying out of their drama. Again, thank you to those who have provided useful advice.

Anonymous wrote:"Your smart-phone is basically a television that watches you."

-Eduard Snowden.

OP knows the person who taped her.

Does everyone take comfort from the fact that they don't know the faceless NSA analyst watching their private smartphone/IPad recordings?

NSA's motto is "collect it all." They have storage capabilities that are essentially "bottomless."

They really do: collect. it. all. It doesn't matter that you think you haven't done anything wrong; that you don't think you have anything to hide:

-did OP have something to "hide?"

The Patriot Act mandates your cell phone allow the authorities to turn it on and record you without your knowledge or consent; why would anyone think they don't do that already? Why would they make an exception to "collect it all" for your IPad/smartphone?

Open your eyes if you are outraged by what happened to OP. It is happening to you every day.

Anonymous wrote:OP unless he's a serious techy, the video isn't completely gone from the hard drive and the police can recover. Call the, file a report, and get a lawyer. Do not communicate with the POS, if he attempts to contact you give him the name/number of your lawyer and tell him to go through them. Save yourself the aggravation.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My friend forwarded an email her soon to be ex sent her after he tried to reach me to "explain things". In the email, he basically states to having videotaped me on his cell phone, though by "accident". So says the man who never has his phone out of his possession except when he is in the pool or taking a shower.
He apparently is turning around and returning home as we speak. I assume to try to destroy any evidence. From what I understand, he has no laptop and only works off his cell phone and iPad; not sure if/how he can wipe those clean, especially since I assume now that, knowing this, he retains everything on the cloud.
My husband is insisting I file a police report, and I most likely will later today, to keep the peace in my home. But my gut tells me there is likely to be little the police can do at this point, especially if the video is gone, which, I guess, is probably the best I can hope for at this point.
Really wish my friend had kept quiet to her husband about what she found, but I can't fault her either. She's not in the best emotional state right now, as she has learned other damaging details about her husband this week- unknown credit card debt, withdrawals from savings accounts, not paying for his kids medical bills, etc.
Sigh. Can't sleep. And yesterday started as such a happy day; DH and I finally got to hear our baby's heartbeat, and FTS went well....