A California Tesla owner filed a class action lawsuit against the electric vehicle manufacturer on Friday, accusing it of violating customers' privacy.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after Reuters reported on Thursday that Tesla employees shared videos and images captured by customers' vehicle cameras via an internal messaging system between 2019 and 2022.

Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who possesses a Tesla Model Y, filed a lawsuit alleging that Tesla employees had access to images and videos for "tasteless and tortious entertainment" and "the humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded."

"As anyone would be, Mr Yeh was outraged at the idea that Tesla's cameras can be used to violate his family's privacy, which the California Constitution scrupulously protects," Yeh's attorney Jack Fitzgerald told Reuters.

Fitzgerald stated that Tesla must be held accountable for these intrusions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners.

Tesla did not respond promptly to a request for comment from Reuters.

According to the lawsuit, Tesla's behaviour is "particularly egregious" and "highly offensive."

According to the document, Yeh filed the complaint "against Tesla on behalf of himself, similarly-situated class members, and the general public." According to the complaint, the proposed class would consist of individuals who owned or leased a Tesla within the previous four years.

According to Reuters, some Tesla personnel could see customers' "Laundry and highly personal matters. We could view their children ", referencing a former employee.

Indeed, parental concern for their children's privacy is one of the most fundamental liberties recognized by society, the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit requests that the court "enjoin Tesla from engaging in its wrongful behaviour, including violating the privacy of customers and others, and to recover actual and punitive damages."