I can see a class action lawsuit coming Musk and Tesla's way

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Tesla workers ‘shared videos of naked customer and car hitting child’ taken on vehicle cameras

Tesla workers shared a video of a naked customer recorded using the camera inside the vehicles designed to assist with driving, it has emerged.

An investigation by Reuters found that groups of Tesla employees privately shared invasive and sensitive videos captured on customer cameras between 2019 and 2022.

According to nine former employees, the videos - including one of a customer approaching a car completely naked - were shared in an internal messaging system.

One clip showed inside the garage of the firm’s owner, Elon Musk, former employees told the news agency.

Ex-employees also described a video of a car hitting a child at high speed and viewing “sexual wellness items” kept in private rooms.

The electric car company assures its millions of customers that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”

The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”

But the videos of intimate moments and crashes spread “like wildfire” in the Tesla office in San Mateo, California, ex-employees said.

Other images were more mundane, such as pictures of dogs and funny road signs that employees made into memes by embellishing them with amusing captions or commentary, before posting them in private group chats.

While some postings were only shared between two employees, others could be seen by scores of them, they claimed.

Tesla states in its online “Customer Privacy Notice” that its “camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle.” But seven former employees told Reuters the computer program they used at work could show the location of recordings – which potentially could reveal where a Tesla owner lived.

One ex-employee also said that some recordings appeared to have been made when cars were parked and turned off.

Tesla states in its online ‘Customer Privacy Notice’ that its ‘camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle’

Several years ago, Tesla would receive video recordings from its vehicles even when they were off, if owners gave consent. It has since stopped doing so.

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And there it is, CALLED IT!

Tesla slammed with class-action lawsuit following report that employees internally shared private photos and videos taken from car cameras

Tesla was hit with a class-action lawsuit Friday after reports emerged that the company may have violated privacy laws by allegedly internally sharing private photos and videos captured by the cars.

The suit was filed in response to a report from Reuters, part of which has been confirmed by Insider, that Tesla employees had access to photos and videos captured by cameras used for Tesla's driving assistance programs, and sometimes shared and joked about the footage internally.

Henry Yeh, who has owned a Tesla for over a year, filed the suit against the electric vehicle manufacturer on behalf of anyone who has owned or leased a Tesla since 2019.

The suit claims Tesla violated California's state constitution, privacy laws, its own privacy policies, and misled customers about use of their data. Tesla's website states the cameras are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy."