Everything is related to the privacy of people and the camera system that is incorporated into the company’s electric vehicles.
In the last few hours it became known that the company run by billionaire Elon Musk received a class action lawsuit for invade the privacy of some of your customers.
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It all happened as a result of some revelations that revealed that company employees internally shared sensitive images taken by cameras installed in vehicles of the automotive brand.
And it is that the company’s electric cars have multiple sensors, which include cameras, which are intended to guide the driving aid tools, said the lawsuit filed this Friday by Henry Yeh, owner of a Model Y, according to The Guardian.
In his letter, the man indicated that Tesla employees accessed different images “not with the stated objective of communicating, offering services and improving the driving systems of Tesla vehicles”, but for other distasteful purposes. Even, In the lawsuit collected by the newspaper, he assures that the photographic material could have been sent to people outside the company.
And while Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and always will be extremely important” and that its cameras are designed from the ground up to protect privacy, Everything seems to indicate that there are bugs in the program.
The US portal established that between 2019 and 2022 groups of Tesla employees privately shared, through an internal messaging system, invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
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The lawsuit even cites cases in which car owners were involved in embarrassing situations, as well as crashes and road rage incidents. Also, it was mentioned that it is possible to determine where the videos were taken, which makes it easier to identify the owner of the vehicle, Contrary to what the company claims.
The plaintiff, who accuses Tesla of invasion of privacy, breach of consumer law, breach of contract and negligence, among other things, ask for compensation.
For now, neither Tesla nor Elon Musk have commented on the matter or have detailed whether their privacy policies are as indicated on the company portal.