Tesla, which entered our country on April 4, has now come forward with a major scandal. Thanks to the cameras in the vehicle, Tesla employees It turned out that they shared several videos and made fun of the images.

According to a Reuters report; Tesla employees; viewed and shared users’ private videos of car accidents, traffic accidents, and other potentially embarrassing incidents.

Images recorded on vehicle cameras were shared by employees

By circulating private videos recorded by vehicle cameras of Tesla employees, videos and people turned out to be a joke. Videos reportedly shared through Tesla’s internal messaging systems between 2019 and 2022 were recorded using cameras mounted on Tesla vehicles to enable autonomous driving.

According to sources telling Reuters; Footage shared by Tesla employees ranges from graphic collisions and road accidents to more embarrassing scenes, including a video of a naked man approaching a car.

Some employees even created memes using footage from recorded videos and then created them. They were also reportedly shared in private group chats.

A former Tesla employee told Reuters that some of the videos may have been recorded with the vehicles turned off. Former Reuters employee “We could look into people’s garages and private properties. Let’s say a Tesla customer had something special in their garage, you know, people would post stuff like that.” said.

However, Tesla says on the support page for this feature “Sentry moderecords are not sent to the company, live broadcasts are end-to-end encrypted, and claims to be “out of reach” of the company.

This feature from Tesla has been a problem before

According to Reuters; Tesla previously had a policy that allowed the company to register non-working vehicles if customers approved. Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) Tesla vehicles “that he filmed anyone who came near the vehicle” Tesla turned off the cameras on its vehicles by default until 2023.

Tesla also added a few more privacy-focused tweaks to Sentry mode after the DPA’s investigation. No longer when cameras detect suspicious activity, only when the vehicle is touched starts recording. In addition; The company also began warning passersby that their vehicles were recording by flashing the headlights of Tesla vehicles.

The company introduced Sentry mode in 2019 as a way to alert drivers to suspicious activity around their parked vehicle and then store recorded events in the vehicle’s on-board memory.

But the Netherlands is not the only country where Tesla’s Sentry Mode is a cause for concern. Last year, the German consumer organization VZBZ announced that the Sentry Mode “contrary to data protection law” He filed a lawsuit against Tesla.

Tesla vehicles were also banned from China’s Beidaihe region last year over concerns that the vehicles’ cameras would capture a private meeting between the country’s top leaders, while the Chinese military banned Tesla vehicles in 2021 over similar surveillance concerns.