Tesla was sued by a group of customers after discovering that videos taken by the brand’s cars were accessed and even shared by employees of the automaker. The class action was filed in a court of law in Northern California, one of the biggest electric vehicle strongholds in the US.
It all started when Reuters released an article in which former Tesla employees claimed to have access to videos made by the Sentry Mode feature, which uses cameras present in cars to record the outside of the vehicle whenever necessary.
Tesla has always said that these videos were made only in case of need, in a possible situation of theft or vandalism, and that, as expected, it did not have access to these materials. Former employees, however, denied this.
Some of them, incidentally, said that several of these videos became memes within chat groups. There are situations in which animals, minor accidents and even naked people appear, since the cars recorded the images inside garages, for example.
Under California law, this type of recording is prohibited, even though customers are aware of this feature and even pay for it, as it is optional. The suit, according to the firm representing the clients, Fitzgerald Joseph LLP, seeks $5 million in moral damages.
It is worth remembering that Tesla has already disabled Sentry Mode in its cars. The resource, incidentally, has already caused problems in other countries, including the result in the banning of Tesla cars in regions of China.
Source: CBS News
