A California Tesla owner filed a class action lawsuit against the electric manufacturer on Friday for violating consumer privacy.
Reuters revealed Thursday that Tesla staff sometimes exchanged intrusive footage and photographs taken by customers’ vehicle cameras over an internal messaging channel between 2019 and 2022.
Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who drives a Tesla Model Y, claims that Tesla personnel accessed the photographs and videos for “tasteless and tortious enjoyment” and “the humiliation of individuals covertly filmed.”
“As anybody would be, Mr Yeh was upset by the concept that Tesla’s cameras can be used to violate his family’s privacy, which the California Constitution strictly protects,” Yeh’s attorney Jack Fitzgerald told Reuters.
Fitzgerald said Tesla should be held liable for these incursions for misrepresenting its shoddy privacy procedures to him and other Tesla owners.
The complaint called Tesla’s behavior “especially outrageous” and “extremely insulting.”
Yeh filed the action “against Tesla on behalf of himself, similarly-situated class members, and the general public.” The complaint included Tesla owners and lessees from the prior four years.
Reuters stated Tesla staff might view consumers’ “laundry and private matters. We saw their kids, “ex-employee.
“Indeed, parents’ interest in their children’s privacy is one of society’s most fundamental liberty rights,” the complaint argued.
The complaint seeks “to prevent Tesla from participating in its illegal actions, including invading the privacy of consumers and others, and to recover real and punitive damages.”
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