This is interesting, but a bit of a side-show. For the more significant stuff -- where you go and when, who you communicate with and what you communicate about

This is interesting, but a bit of a side-show. For the more significant stuff -- where you go and when, who you communicate with and what you communicate about -- data from autonomous vehicles probably isn't going to be the main issue. It will generally work a lot better -- cheaper, easier, more reliable, etc. -- if they get their surveillance data from a system designed for their purposes. And, of course, they don't have to wait for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles to build such a system. In fact, they haven't waited. The big question is how our norms and laws around privacy reset after the explosion of information technology has wiped away all the assumptions on which our traditional notions rested.