Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion

A California Tesla owner has sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers, Report informs referring to Reuters.

The lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California came after Reuters reported 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."

The lawsuit said Tesla’s conduct is "particularly egregious" and "highly offensive."