They even shared a clip of a child being hit by a car, according to Reuters
Some Tesla workers shared sensitive photos and videos captured by the cameras on owners’ cars between each other for several years, according to Reuters. Former employees told the outlet that colleagues shared the images in group chats and one-on-one communications between 2019 and last year.
One such video showed a Tesla driving at high speed before hitting a child, Reuters reported. Other footage included things like a nude man walking toward a vehicle. “We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” one of the former employees said.
Workers are said to have sent each other videos taken inside Tesla owners’ garages, too.
The image-sharing practice “was a breach of privacy…” one of the former employees said. “And I always joked that I would never buy a Tesla after seeing how they treated some of these people.”
On its website, Tesla says each new vehicle it builds is equipped with eight external cameras. These support features such as Autopilot, Smart Summon and Autopark. They also enable the Sentry Mode surveillance system that captures footage of people approaching a parked Tesla and other seemingly suspicious activity.
Companies like Apple and Tesla have more or less unlimited access to customer devices with great potential for abuse of their information gathering. The only viable solution goding forward is for these companies to open up and share exactly what data they store and could porentially collect on customers, and put customers in the drivning seat, with full control over these companies supplied software and access rights.
Tesla does not have a communications department that can be reached for comment
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