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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[Longmile149]

These are the same 'bro' engineers that are now showing Twitter how real coders operate....

What could possibly go wrong.

There’s no world in which Elon Musk, the owner of “Titter,” isn’t already actively invading the privacy of Twitter users that catch his attention. I absolutely guarantee that he lacks the self-control to not open up his critics’ DMs and look for alts and generally fish for ways to lash out at them.

 

[Longmile149]

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.

As has been pointed out many times wrt FSD, Tesla’s business practices are affecting a lot more people who didn’t consent than who did.

 

[Longmile149]

There was not a USB port in the glove compartment for Model S/X prior to 2021. The only USB ports were in the center console.

You are right, It does say that Sentry mode events are not recorded, one of the reasons I edited my post and added that link was to show what was and was not (because I originally thought Sentry was).

It seems weird to uncritically believe this.

Seriously, given their proven track record of Tesla lying and abusing the trust of their customers and particularly given that their CEO regularly lies about the current capabilities of their cars, why in the world would anyone believe Tesla when they say they don’t record Sentry data?

FFS, Tesla is in hot water right now for having a faked video up on their website for years claiming that their self-driving suite was 100% ready for prime time.

…and that’s not even touching the fact that Tesla’s CEO doesn’t believe contracts he doesn’t like are binding, up to and including things like “paying his employees” and “complying with federal regulations” and “honoring the terms of consent agreements.”

Tesla’s claim that they don’t store data seems like it’d make a fun pattern for toilet paper and not much else.

Edited for some weird typos