> Data retention is legal's bread and butter. As is deleting data. Also, for, say, training data for Tesla’s software, I don’t see legal requirements for keepi

> Data retention is legal's bread and butter. As is deleting data. Also, for, say, training data for Tesla’s software, I don’t see legal requirements for keeping it around, > There's no chance such a decision is accidently made by reusing code. At Tesla? I know about nothing about their software development practices, but from them, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this were accidental. Edit: one scenario to easily introduce this bug is if the “delete data after upload” feature were added after the “on a crash, upload all data you have, in case the car burns down” feature.