Your Car Is Spying On You. Well, If It's a Tesla It Is

Probably other cars with cameras are also spying on you as well, but this story is about Tesla. Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy "is and will always be enormously important to us." The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy."

But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.

One guy was completely naked as he approached his Tesla. That video was uploaded by these employees.

"We could see inside people's garages and their private properties," said another former employee. "Let's say that a Tesla customer had something in their garage that was distinctive, you know, people would post those kinds of things."

Tesla didn't respond to detailed questions sent to the company for this report.

One of the people with "unique things" in their garages was Elon Musk. He owns the Lotus Esprit sub from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

The people who worked with this "data" and were invading everyone's privacy, with a few exceptions, didn't see anything wrong. "No one expects privacy anymore," or something equally stupid seems to be the prevailing idea at Tesla, and maybe in Big Tech as well.

There is a lot more of this nonsense, including you being filmed if you don't own a Tesla, but just happen to be near one. More privacy invasions, and the non-response by governments. Except for China which has banned Tesla automobiles in certain areas.

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