A newly filed lawsuit accuses Tesla of violating the privacy rights of customers after employees allegedly shared footage taken from the vehicles' cameras.
A Tesla owner based in San Francisco filed the potential class-action
suit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California.
- The suit came after a Reuters report
described how some Tesla employees exchanged the images and videos
taken from customers' cameras using an internal messaging system.
- The
videos and images, shared from 2019 through 2022, included footage of
children, car accidents, road rage, and a nude man, according to
Reuters.
- The plaintiff, Henry Yeh, is "outraged at the idea
that Tesla's cameras can be used to violate his family's privacy," his
attorney said.
- Yeh's lawsuit, which accuses Tesla of breaching
California privacy laws, is seeking a court to order Tesla to compensate
customers for some or all of the cost of their cars, as well as compel
the company to destroy data and stop recording and sharing footage from
its car cameras.
- In its customer privacy notice, Tesla says that its "camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle."
