Tesla took NSW man Keith ‘Keef’ Leech to court after he posted documents allegedly obtained from whistleblower Lukasz Krupski on social media.Tesla took NSW man Keith ‘Keef’ Leech to court after he posted documents allegedly obtained from whistleblower Lukasz Krupski on social media.to delete confidential internal company files he had posted on social media, just days before the case was due to be heard in court.
In the orders by consent issued on 6 June, Leech was ordered to delete all files within 72 hours from his devices and from any cloud or filesharing services being used. It included any from Krupski relating to Tesla or Tesla vehicles, contained in specific zip files titled “leak.zip, Beanz.zip, Juicy.zip, or Teslafiles.zip”. The order also orders him to delete any other non-public documents including technical reports, complaints, vehicle repairs, meeting notes, product testing, analysis or design documents.
Tesla’s use of the Australian legal system to force posts to be deleted on social media comes as Musk’s other company, X, has been engaged in a legal battle against the Australian online safety regulator over orders to remove posts containing videos of the Wakeley church stabbing incident.against X over failure to remove 65 tweets with the video, but an administrative appeal tribunal case challenging eSafety’s removal notice is due to be heard next month.