Suspicious spouses would once jump in a taxi to follow their partners’ movements or hire a private investigator to do the dirty work.

But in the modern day, unfaithful husbands and wives are just as likely to be found out by their Uber accounts.

A businessman in France is suing the company for €45m (£38m) after a bug in the car-hailing app meant all of his journeys showed up on his wife’s phone, ultimately leading to a presumably messy divorce.