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Teslas Monitor Everything—Including You | WIRED (www.youtube.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 13 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Precisely why I drive a '97. Also less electronics and shitty plastic parts, and I can fabricate a field repair out of almost anything.

My dad has the '21 model of the same car, it's crazy at how much it phones home.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 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.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Don't have to worry about it as long as you don't buy a swasticar

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

or the 100k charcuterie machine.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well even if you don’t buy / own / rent one, you might still be impacted by the surveillance

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago

Exactly this. Especially with Teslas, some of their many cameras that complete a 360 degree view around the car can see up to 250m.

There's a picture out there somewhere that has a visual representation of the view distances, but I'm failing miserably at finding it.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

Just wait till they start scanning nearby cars

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Hate to break it to you but many of the major car brands have incredible amounts of surveillance happening in their modern cars coming out nowadays.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

D-uh | TIRED.