A Tesla customer is taking the electric car giant to court, in the first legal move since it was revealed that Tesla employees shared private customer information(Opens in a new tab).
The potential class action lawsuit was filed on April 7 by Tesla Model Y owner Henry Yeh, who filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California to demand accountability from Tesla toward owners of its Autopilot-equipped cars.
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“Like everyone else, Mr. Yeh was outraged at the notion that Tesla’s cameras could be used to invade his family’s privacy, which is strictly protected by the California constitution,” Yeh’s attorney, Jack Fitzgerald, said in a statement. Reuters. Yeh wrote that he felt a violation of the staff’s conduct for sharing sensitive data taken from his car with the aim of “tasteless and harmful entertainment” and “humiliating those surreptitiously recorded”.
on April 7th Reuters mentioned(Opens in a new tab) Based on claims made by nine former Tesla employees that team members were sharing personal video footage and images taken from the vehicle’s interior cameras through employee channels. Shared messages included “intimate” scenes from customers’ homes and events on the road, which were disseminated by Tesla’s artificial intelligence trainers (known as “stickers”) as a form of company influence.
In the complaint, Yeh wrote, it is being filed “against Tesla on behalf of itself, class members in a similar situation, and the general public” in a potential class action lawsuit from customers who have either rented or purchased a Tesla within the past four years.