Kevin BeaumontApr 6, 2023
Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musks-2018-tweet-tesla-union-campaign-illegal-us-court-rules-2023-03-31/" target="_blank">into vehicles</a> to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”

Reuters
Show threadJim ParsonsApr 6, 2023

@GossiTheDog @hypervisible

#Tesla's are essentially rolling #Android phones harvesting as much human & device behavioural #data as they can grab

April 2023:
"Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars" | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

August 2022:
"The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard" - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope

ALL auto manufacturers now addicted to #surveillance as a "generator of value” at the owner / lessee's expense.

#Privacy

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musks-2018-tweet-tesla-union-campaign-illegal-us-court-rules-2023-03-31/" target="_blank">into vehicles</a> to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”

Reuters
Show threadNicholas WeaverApr 6, 2023

@TryshHQ @GossiTheDog @hypervisible
It is so bad that GM has announced that the Blazer EV will not support CarPlay, because they want to do the Android behavior harvesting thing and having people bypass it with their phone is unacceptable.

I will NEVER buy a car again that doesn't support CarPlay.

Show threadDan Gillmor
@ncweaver Not clear why we should trust Apple, not to mention the next generation of Apple executives, especially now that the company is using all the data it hides from others to jump-start its own ad business.
Apr 6, 2023 at 11:21pmWeb
Show threadRich CassaraApr 7, 2023
@dangillmor @ncweaver for many years, it’s been clear that Apple makes more than enough on hardware sales that it doesn’t need to sell user data. Plus it can further advertise their hardware by being better on user privacy than every other option.
Show threadJack-FrostodonJan 2, 2025
@rjcassara @dangillmor @ncweaver Or so we think. While Apple has had a record-low in privacy scandals, the few that it has had are catastrophic to say the least. The bug that allowed a group facetime call initiator to listen in on those who didn't answer if they added themselves in as a participant, that nearly got swept under the rug because the kid who reported it didn't have a $100 a year developer account?
That bug that caused location services to remain on when turned off?
Show threadJack-FrostodonJan 2, 2025
@rjcassara @dangillmor @ncweaver The fact that they've now used Apple Intelligence to do exactly what has been a thorn in every GMail user's side and organize the inbox by category, and worse, make it opt in? Also, has anyone noticed, not just with Apple but with any similar company, that nearly everything third-party has some form of opt-in mandate, *except* for the company's own actions?
Also, let's not forget to mention the infamous random logout for some iCloud users.
https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/236214/some-users-are-randomly-getting-locked-out-of-their-apple-id-accounts