Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

[Franco Cozzo]

Uh oh, I guess this one could always be an issue as car manufacturers implement these technologies into their cars - who owns the footage recorded by the cameras and where are they stored?

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’

Tesla 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.

Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire”, the ex-employee said.

I saw some scandalous stuff sometimes - scenes of intimacy, a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t want anybody to see about my life - Former Tesla employee

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-images-shared

I think given this day and age, this might become a problem we see more of.