Tesla sued after report that workers shared invasive images from car cameras

Lawsuit: Images were shared "for the tasteless entertainment of Tesla employees."

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[jhodge]

I'll look forward to the final disposition of this suit in a decade or so.

Regardless of the ultimate legality, "tasteless" is right.

 

[jhodge]

No user agreed to what Tesla was doing with their data.

No kidding. But there's a big difference between scenarios:

A) Tesla surreptitiously recorded people in what they expected to be a private place and
B) Tesla recorded people with their consent, but those recordings were misused

In (B), it will matter a lot if/how/how promptly Tesla disciplined the offending employees. If the answer is "not at all", that's one path. OTOH, if they were disciplined promptly once management was made aware, then they may not be in much trouble at all.

In (A) of course, they shouldn't have the recordings in the first place, and so need to punished severely.

I'm not a lawyer, everything I've written may be 100% legally wrong. I'm interested in the opt-in question because that's what I'm see wherever I look, but I'm not a Tesla owner so I don't know for sure.

 

[jhodge]

Exactly. And there is an opt-out. But what's not clear is whether this opt-out was respected or ignored. I haven't been able to find a clear answer to that. Also, that out-out should really have been an opt-in, with opt-out as the default for all vehicles.

Look upthread - at least one Tesla owner has stated that it is opt-in. That does not address the internal misuse, however.

edit: by “it”, I’m referring to sharing video with Tesla

 

[jhodge]

Let's be clear: Trump didn't win, not by any standard definition of winning. He lost the popular vote both times he ran. He "won" by a bizarre quirk of the US electoral system that needs to be done away with.

"The winner is the guy who gets fewer votes" isn't a definition of democracy anywhere except in the US and it's political namesake, Bizarro World.

Come on - what percentage of Britons voted for Liz Truss again? Less than 1%? (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-wins-leadership-contest-27915535)

Oh, but that's not fair you may say! That's in a Parliamentary system, and even if Liz Truss didn't win a majority, her party did, and that's what counts under those rules. Which is true, although the Conservative party didn't win it's majority with her at the head.

Point being, there is a lot more variety to actual, working democracies than simple majorities. I despise Donald Trump, but he won (and lost) fair-and-square under the rules.