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Legal Challenges: The Privacy Lawsuit
Tesla faces a new legal hurdle—a class-action lawsuit over a video privacy scandal. Allegedly, Tesla employees might have accessed and viewed video footage from customers’ vehicles, even when parked in garages or private spaces, revealing potentially sensitive footage.
The lawsuit claims damages exceeding $5 million, but the actual severity remains uncertain pending court evaluation. The timing of the filing, just one day after a Reuters story suggested the possibility of Tesla gaining access to private video streams, has raised suspicion about whether the move is opportunistic. For the moment, the case has not been confirmed as legitimate, and a judge must decide its fate.