By visiting the official Tesla website, you will receive the company’s assurances of a strict customer privacy protocol. In fact, the website will say that the cameras built into cars for driving assistance are “intended to protect privacy only.”

However, according to his revelations Reuters the above does not appear to be fully respected. From 2019 to 2022, groups of Tesla employees shared videos and images captured by customers’ car cameras without their knowledge via an internal messaging system.

In fact, Tesla employees saw their drivers and customers in very personal situations.

A former employee told how he got a video in which the owner appeared naked.

In addition, the workers had videos of accidents and violence.

According to another former employee, video of the 2021 crash shows Tesla hitting a child on a bicycle while driving through a residential area.

This particular video was even sent out to many employees at Tesla’s San Francisco office. Mateo California.

For its part, however, Tesla is asserting itself in politics. confidentiality of their customers that “camera footage remains anonymous and is not linked to you or your vehicle.” However, seven former employees told Reuters that from the computer program they used at work, they could see all the cameras of the Tesla cars.

The former employee also stated that some of the recordings appeared to have been made while the cars were parked and turned off.

A few years ago, Tesla filmed videos of their cars, even when they were turned off, if the owners agreed to do so. However, he stopped doing it.

“We could look into people’s garages and their private property,” said another former employee.

About three years ago, some employees came across a video of a unique submersible parked in a garage and shared it, according to the report. A white Lotus Esprit submarine, nicknamed Wet Nellie, was featured in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The car was owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself, who bought it for about $968,000 at an auction in 2013. It’s unclear if Musk knew if the video was released or not.

However, Tesla did not respond to detailed questions sent to the company for this post.

For its part, to publish agency reportage Reuters reached out to more than 300 former Tesla employees who have been with the company for the past nine years and who were involved in the development of the autonomous driving system.

More than a dozen agreed to answer questions, all speaking on condition of anonymity.

Finally, it is noted that Reuters couldn’t get any shared videos or images that former employees said they didn’t have.

Source: Reuters, The Guardian.