I’ve worked at three large tech companies and before that did medical research for a bit. Every large tech company treated actual content with respect and tried

I’ve worked at three large tech companies and before that did medical research for a bit. Every large tech company treated actual content with respect and tried to prevent unnecessary access, not just through policy, but with tooling. The nature of medical research is that you don’t have the means to build tooling for every little thing, so they compensated by constantly reminding us of the constraints and cultivating a culture of respecting the data (which was anonymized) - nobody would even think to joke about this type of thing. There’s no excuse for a big company like Tesla to not protect data. And there’s a big difference between turning a blind eye to a culture of abusing access/not working to prevent unnecessary access, and what will likely happen here where a handful of people are sacrificed after the fact because it generated bad publicity.