LAS VEGAS -- Your car is spying on you.
That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk's company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a difficult question as vehicles become less like cars and more like computers on wheels.
Is your car company violating your privacy rights?
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People think this is new?
If your vehicle has built in navigation you can bet that whoever is keeping that database is also selling your driving habits and haunts to whoever ponies up the money. Don't know if they include you identity but wouldn't rule it out. . .
ReplyDeleteHell naw it isn't new. By now everyone should know this, the real problem is so many just don't care. They happily sell out their privacy (and all the rest of ours by extension) for a little (perceived) convenience.
ReplyDeleteFurther, Musk hasn't really revealed anything useful. Give us the video of the cars interior up to the moment of the explosion. That would answer some questions that so far have been unresolved to the satisfaction of a skeptical public.
My *newest* car is a 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee. No way on God's Green Earth am I getting a newer model, with all the crap loaded on it.
ReplyDeleteThey did not bother to make ai deepfake video to show a man shooting himself in a confined space with a .50 DE. An explanation as to how a very fit man's corpse was burnt beyond recognition yet his documents and electronic devices were so well preserved. This is as believable as Butler and the golf course. They don't even put any effort in anymore, as if whatever happens next will make it irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteStefan v.
I was at the meat market earlier today and when I asked the lady about a specific product, she mentioned a different store and it immediately came up on her phone without any input from her.
ReplyDeleteI don't really care for a phone that listens all the time.
DeleteIn the human endeavor to make and accumulate money nothing's off the table. Anyone who believes big companies are morally driven and altruistic toward their customers is a naive idiot.
ReplyDeleteThe "truck" was a rental. The owner would be the one to share the info, I guess.
ReplyDeleteJpaul
Shit man, my dishwasher has been spying on me for years. Told the bitch the other day if she didn't cut it out, I'd send her ass back to China. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteThere are ways to subvert the spying. For example, there is a Walmart three blocks from my gun store / indoor range. Park there and leave the phone in the car. The walk will do me good, anyway. I might even go in Walmart, too, and actually buy something on the way home. If you know how you are being watched, it's easy to circumvent.
ReplyDeleteif your vehicle gets blown up in front of a public building, I don't have any problem with the investigators going through your vehicle data with a fine tooth comb.
ReplyDeleteIf you have an aversion to the collection of that type of data, then don't buy that type of vehicle. To claim "I didn't know how much it collected" is pure BS, or you're a fool.
You know, it doesn’t take much effort or time to drop the headliner a bit and disconnect the antenna…………
ReplyDeleteTMF Bert
Y'all should know that On-Star started in 1996. Auto surveillance on operators is not new.
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