Reuters reports:
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners 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 between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.
Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked. “We could see inside people’s garages and their private properties,” said another former employee.
Read the full article. According to the report, employees also shared memes they made from videos involving road rage and in one case, from an incident in which a child riding a bike was struck by a Tesla.
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
”We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids.”
– Ex $TSLA employeehttps://t.co/5VHzETOPTk— Tomi (@tomi) April 6, 2023