Tesla driver sues company for allegedly accessing customer videos


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Tesla is facing a lawsuit alleging its employees violated car owners' privacy by distributing private photos and images captured by the vehicles' cameras. The lawsuit, filed by a Tesla car owner in federal court in the Northern District of California on Friday, alleges Tesla employees shared "highly invasive videos and images" from users' cars for their own "tasteless and tortious entertainment" and "the humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded." The suit is seeking class-action status. According to the complaint, the shared recordings included a naked man approaching a Tesla vehicle, car crashes and road-rage incidents, among other "embarrassing" and "private" images....