In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB <
here@is.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:10:25 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
Don't teslas have cameras in them, and are they filming everything legally >while on the road in the US and while parked?
I suspect its more for CYA, and for the engineers to examine, after an accident.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/
One former employee reported seeing "scandalous stuff," including
"scenes of intimacy but not nudity," as well as "certain pieces of
laundry, certain sexual wellness items... and just private scenes of
life that we really were privy to because the car was charging."
Meanwhile, one "former employee saw nothing wrong with sharing
images, but described a function that allowed data labelers to view
the location of recordings on Google Maps as a 'massive invasion of
privacy.'"
As Reuters notes, Tesla's customer privacy notice says that "camera
recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your
vehicle." But seven ex-employees "told Reuters the computer program
they used at work could show the location of recordings--which
potentially could reveal where a Tesla owner lived," the article
said. One former employee told Reuters, "We could see inside people's
garages and their private properties."
...
One practice involving videos from parked cars has been stopped. "One
ex-employee also said that some recordings appeared to have been made
when cars were parked and turned off. Several years ago, Tesla would
receive video recordings from its vehicles even when they were off,
if owners gave consent. It has since stopped doing so," Reuters
wrote.
We contacted Tesla today and will update this article if we get a
response. Reuters said it sent "detailed questions" to Tesla and
contacted Musk but received no response.
...
One ex-employee told Reuters, "I'm bothered by it because the people
who buy the car, I don't think they know that their privacy is, like,
not respected... We could see them doing laundry and really intimate
things. We could see their kids." Another ex-employee called it a
"breach of privacy" and said, "I always joked that I would never buy
a Tesla after seeing how they treated some of these people."
One employee told Reuters that Tesla workers became paranoid about
driving the company's cars. The prize in some internal company
contests was the chance to use a company car for one or two days.
"Knowing how much data those vehicles are capable of collecting
definitely made folks nervous," one ex-employee said.
Elijah
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there's even mention of seeing some James Bond prop in Elon Musk's garage
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