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> When has Elon been against user privacy? Get into a car accident, and want some blackbox data from your Tesla? Good luck - get ready for a lot of legal costs
by FireBeyond 4y ago
> When has Elon been against user privacy?
Get into a car accident, and want some blackbox data from your Tesla? Good luck - get ready for a lot of legal costs.
Get into a car accident, and it makes Tesla look bad? Tesla will hold press conferences and release your telemetry data to the media, whether you want them to or not. Exceptionally misleading data in some cases - one fatality collision where autopilot was being blamed, Tesla said "Woah, hold up. Not true. Driver was distracted. In fact, the car warned him to put his hands on the steering wheel before the collision!"
In reality, the car had issued -one- warning about the steering wheel, and none after that, and that one warning was -eighteen minutes- before the collision.
- borgbean 4y ago100%. Weaponizing your customers' data against them is even worse than selling it.
- nullc 4y agoSelling it is just weaponizing it against the customer with extra steps.
- woojoo666 4y agoBut are they selling that data, or using it to improve their products. There is a scale to privacy. With FOSS at one end, and Google/Facebook at the other. Apple is in the middle, and if Tesla keeps the data internal, then Tesla would be around the same place
- FireBeyond 4y agoI don't know, I'd argue that selling the data would be less offensive than using that data to disingenuously throw a customer under the bus for the sake of their own PR, actually.