Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars


A file photo of a Tesla Model 3 vehicle using the Autopilot Full Self Driving Beta software (FSD) while navigating a city road in Encinitas, California, US. 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 nine former employees. — Reuters

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO: 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.

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