‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

https://lemmy.world/post/4561402

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen - Lemmy.world

Tesla was the worst-ranked brand in the study, getting flagged in every privacy category — only the second time this happened. Tesla’s AI-powered autopilot was highlighted as “untrustworthy” following its involvement in numerous crashes and fatalities.

Yeah, that does sound untrustworthy.

Huh?! If I look at the source of the article at Mozilla, Tesla is actually ranked as almost least creepy.

So I do not understand where this is coming from. Also the picture of the article only showing teslas is highly suggestive

foundation.mozilla.org/en/…/cars/

This is the article being referenced. Specifically, the table listing the brands from “bad to worst”:

…mozilla.org/…/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-pr…

*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla Foundation

It looks to be based on user ratings (for the sort), and could change dynamically

Likely a lot of people dog piled on Tesla, then read the others.

The Tesla one’s main issue is “they grab a lot of data and don’t seem competent protecting it” which is less bad than “we will sell your sexual history if we can grab it from the car, and have a lot of sensors too”