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Teslas Monitor Everything—Including You | WIRED (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The 2024 Tesla Model 3 has some of the most advanced navigation, autonomous driving, and safety features currently on the market, meaning it’s full of equipment that can record and track your surroundings—and you. How much data does Tesla collect? Where is it stored? And can you trust them to protect your sensitive information? WIRED decided to investigate.

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[–] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not going to watch the video so my comment is based on the title (why everything needs to be a video nowadays, just give me an article to read or at least a summary together with the video...)

Yeah no fucking shit... And Tesla is not even the worse out there (and not for a lack of trying), if you consider the analysis done by the Mozilla foundation of the privacy policies of a bunch of major car companies. You dont even have to be the owner of the car, if you ride in one as a passenger you are giving permission for the use of your data in the most crazy absurd ways.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/

There's just no company to be trusted. Unless your car is very old, you dont have privacy.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

That’s the upside of the 2G and 3G service shutdown. A bunch of cars can’t phone home anymore (though I don’t think the data tracking was as intense before 2017 or so for most makes.