Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees used an internal messaging system to share videos and images from customers' car cameras — including footage from inside garages, bedrooms, and of a naked man approaching a vehicle. Nine former employees confirmed this to Reuters. Clips were turned into memes and shared widely across offices. Tesla's privacy notice stated recordings were "anonymous and not linked to you" — but employees could view location data, potentially identifying where owners lived. A class-action lawsuit followed in 2023. Tesla has since automated much of its data labeling.
SOURCE: Reuters

The FTC found that Amazon's Ring unit gave employees and Ukraine-based contractors unrestricted access to customer home security footage — including cameras labeled "Master Bedroom" and "Bathroom." One employee viewed thousands of recordings from 81 female users over several months before a colleague reported it. Ring marketed its products as "peace of mind." The FTC also found that hackers exploited lax security to access cameras and harass children. Amazon settled for $5.8 million, agreed to delete historic footage, and was required to implement a comprehensive privacy program.
SOURCE: The Guardian / FTC

A widespread belief persists that airlines track your search history to raise prices when you return to the same route. While airlines officially deny this, they do use dynamic pricing algorithms fed by demand signals, platform data, and behavioral patterns. Using private/incognito browsing often yields the same price — but travel platforms and aggregators do collect device fingerprints, location, and browsing patterns to optimize pricing in real time. The bigger concern: even if individual targeting is limited today, the infrastructure to do so already exists.
SOURCE: Million Mile Secrets

An investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten found that Meta routes footage from Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to Sama, a Kenya-based contractor — for AI model training. Workers described seeing deeply private content: people undressing, in the bathroom, engaging in sexual activity, and exposing credit card details on screen. One worker stated: "We see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies." Meta responded that this is disclosed in its terms of service. Critics argue that users opting into "AI improvements" had no realistic expectation that human contractors overseas would watch their footage. A federal class-action lawsuit followed in early 2026.
SOURCE: Svenska Dagbladet