Employees of Elon Musk's company will have released videos and personal images captured by Tesla cars. Some videos contained scenes of nudity, children and accidents.
A California citizen who owns a Tesla car sued Elon Musk's company on Friday, accusing it of violating its customers' privacy. The collective action advanced after, on Thursday, Reuters reported that multiple images captured by Tesla cars were distributed by company employees for their entertainment.
The images and videos distributed internally by Tesla employees were recorded between 2019 and 2022, and in them it is possible to see , according to Reuters, nude scenes, children and videos of accidents and altercations on the road . Some of the videos also showed the inside of owners' garages, as well as the objects stored there . The plaintiff, a Model Y owner named Henry Yeh of San Francisco, claimed that employees accessed the footage for "their sadistic and unfunny entertainment" and for the "humiliation of those who were artfully recorded." According to the injured party, explains the Washington Post, the recordings and captured images were also subject to jokes in chat groups .
That these types of videos and images have been made available for Tesla employees to view and share, willingly and for inappropriate purposes, affects anyone with a Tesla, their families, passengers, and even guests in their homes.” complaint filed by Henry Yeh.
California citizen attorney Jack Fitzgerald explained to Reuters that Tesla " needs to be held accountable for these [privacy] invasions and for misrepresenting its privacy policies to him [Henry Yeh] and other Tesla owners."
The process filed by the California citizen extends to any individual who has owned or leased a Tesla within the past four years . The aim is to force the company to compensate its customers for part or all of the cost of their vehicles — the exact amount would be set by a court of law. In addition, Tesla must "stop recording, observing and sharing" images captured by car cameras and must destroy the data obtained by violating the privacy law.
In its privacy policy, Tesla writes that “ recordings with the cameras remain anonymous ” and are not related to the owner or his vehicle. If users consent to the sharing of data, still according to the company's privacy policy, Tesla will use this information to communicate with consumers, perform business services and improve its products - a policy that, according to the process presented by Henry Yeh , was violated by the company.
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