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SAN FRANCISCO: A California Tesla owner on Friday (Apr 7) sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers. The lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California came after Reuters reported on Thursday that

SAN FRANCISCO: A California Tesla owner on Friday sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers.

The lawsuit, filed by Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who owns a Tesla Model Y car, alleges that the company's employees were able to access the images and videos for their"tasteless and tortious entertainment" and"the humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded". "Tesla needs to be held accountable for these invasions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners," Fitzgerald said.The lawsuit said Tesla’s conduct is"particularly egregious" and"highly offensive".

Reuters reported that some Tesla employees could see customers"doing laundry and really intimate things". We could see their kids, cited a former employee.

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