Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
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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.
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Teslas are so bad. No idea why people keep buying them. Plus driving a Tesla is like wearing a MAGA hat these days.

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You don’t say! Give people the ability to do stupid things and they will

Wouldn’t be surprised to hear this happens with doorbells, etc, too.

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I’d be surprised if this sort of didn’t happen with every smart appliance. In fact, here’s a case that happened in Germany a while back when somebody requested the recordings Alexa made of them. Amazon ended up sending recordings of a wrong person, which implies that data security isn’t exactly a top priority.

These corps just do not give af.

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