Tesla Hit With Privacy Invasion Suit As Videos Of Owners Proliferate

A California Tesla owner on Friday sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers, Hyunjoo Jin and Mike Scarcella reported for Reuters.

Photo Insert: The case proves that Tesla can monitor and record all their customers, making Elon Musk not only a champion of free expression but also of free invasion of privacy.

The lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California came after Reuters reported on Thursday that groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras between 2019 and 2022.

The lawsuit, filed by Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who owns Tesla's Model Y, alleges that Tesla employees were able to access the images and videos for their "tasteless and tortious entertainment" and the humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded.

"Like anyone would be, Mr. Yeh was outraged at the idea that Tesla's cameras can be used to violate his family's privacy, which the California Constitution scrupulously protects," Jack Fitzgerald, an attorney representing Yeh, told Reuters.

The case proves that Tesla can monitor and record all their customers, making Elon Musk not only a champion of free expression but also of free invasion of privacy.

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