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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

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
May 14, 2024 at 11:46pmWeb
Show threadJon GilbertMay 15, 2024
@evacide I don't suppose anyone's done a diagram of where, on a Tesla, all of the cameras are located?
Show threadJustin DerrickMay 15, 2024
@jgilbert @evacide Windshield, front left and right corner panel, B-pillars, and trunk. Model 3 & Model Y cars have an internal camera for monitoring ‘driver attentiveness’, apparently. The S & X don’t have interior cameras, although I haven’t been in one newer than 2020.
Show threadLaukidhMay 15, 2024
@jgilbert @evacide front and rear bumpers, front quarter panels, door pillars, and one in the cabin above the mirror. Those are the ones I know of.
Show threadPaul G's PhotosMay 15, 2024
@Laukidh no cameras in the bumpers. There's a rear camera above the number plate and the front camera is mounted at the top of the windscreen.
Show threadDan HerbertMay 15, 2024
@pgaskell @Laukidh I'm pretty sure the Cybertruck is the one exception to that. It has a pair of rear bumper cameras and a front camera facing downward in the bumper.
Show threadPaul G's PhotosMay 15, 2024
@danherbert @Laukidh yeah, like with all American pickups you really need a camera to keep track of how many kids you’ve run over.
Show threadLaukidhMay 15, 2024
@pgaskell you’re right, I thought I saw one in the front bumper but I was mistaken; here’s from the model 3 manual
Show threadvxoMay 15, 2024
@jgilbert the manual lists them and a picture of the diagram is in that article. One rear backup cam, the side pillar cameras, some forward facing ones in the windshield, and a couple at the front fenders
@evacide
Show threadmav May 15, 2024
@evacide
The really wild part about this is that this was published over a year ago and I haven't heard a single thing about it since then. It sounds vaguely familiar but these kinds of stories are so familiar I can't tell if I ever even saw this one.
@InfoSecSherpa
Show threadFlatbush Gardener 🌈May 15, 2024
@evacide
When I clicked the article, guess what ad came first.
Show threadHeath StewartMay 15, 2024
@evacide I’m not nearly as worried about that as what dumb crap Musk will do to our cars next.
Show threadCourt Cantrell won't conformMay 15, 2024
@evacide At this point, anybody who buys or still owns a Tesla has got to be one clueless mf.
Show threadCourt Cantrell won't conformMay 15, 2024
@evacide We recently watched the movie LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, and the most believable part was when the bad guys hacked all the nearest Teslas and crashed them in one area to block the interstate.
Show threadOlivierMay 15, 2024
@courtcan @evacide following the news recently, it's not just Tesla. All the automakers are going towards that kind of gross invasion of privacy.. In North America anyway. And electrics are definitely some of the worst offenders in that regards. I'd say stick to cycling and public transit if it didn't sound so utopian.
Show threadKileenMay 15, 2024
@evacide thank you for the visibility!
Show threadGallen 🔜 LIFC, EFMay 15, 2024

@evacide
I want to know where tesla owners park their cars in order for the cameras to pick up "sexual wellness objects" lol.

Combined bedroom/carport? XD

Show threadHacksaw?May 15, 2024
@evacide THIS! This is why I don’t want my personal data on someone else’s cloud. Not weird advertising algorithms, but bored shitheads trawling through other peoples lives.
Show threadhurt138May 15, 2024
@evacide correction.. if you are in view of a Tesla it is recording you. You don't need to own it.
Show threadAnyia, down 🏳️‍⚧️ girlMay 15, 2024
@hurt138 @evacide I don't suppose there's a nifty way of jamming said cameras to avoid getting recorded into the Tesla cloud? As someone who happens to walk past a Tesla I mean, not an owner.
Show threadDavid BinkowskiMay 15, 2024
@evacide the first ever mememobile love it 🤮
Show threadAllan ChowMay 15, 2024
@evacide this sort of behavior almost always starts at the top
Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsMay 15, 2024
@evacide
Never tell a Spy Mobile owner that! They will get mad at you. Like you ruined their party or something. That's generally been my experience with Spy Mobile owners, so I just don't say anything anymore.
Show threadAzureArmageddonMay 15, 2024
@evacide Playing Watch_Dogs 2 really changed my outlook on tech from naively enthused to privacy-concious by depicting shit like this. Probably the best thing to say about a recent Ubisoft game.
Show threadKevin Karhan May 15, 2024
@evacide Shit like this is why I'll refuse to buy or even drive any car made after 2015, because in 2016 #Trackers aka. #eCall was made mandatory and I think it's noone's business where, when and for what reason I'm driving somewhere...
Show threadPetr TesarikMay 15, 2024

@evacide I think I should go to the black market to buy some Javelins (FGM-148). They say it's only about $30k.

You know, necessary self-defense in case a Tesla car gets nearby…

Show threadDeborah ApthorpMay 15, 2024
@evacide thank heavens for my determinedly dumb little Nissan Leaf.
Show threadExpertenkommision CyberunfallMay 15, 2024

@evacide

You find me totally shocked.
Not.

So and just fyi, it’s not only about the owners, it’s also about their neighbors, their surroundings and everyone within the reach those cameras.

Show threadMagnus AhltorpMay 15, 2024
@evacide Car owners are now waking up to what has been a reality for decades for us non-car-owners. Only car owners won’t get arrested for property damage if they disable the cameras or try to get around the tracking.
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸May 15, 2024
@evacide another reason to hate Tesla
Show threadAsta [AMP]May 15, 2024
@evacide cybertruck owners: "at least Tesla likes me"

Tesla employees: "lmao look at this clown" posts picture to slack channel called Cyberfuck Memes
Show threadSérgio MachadoMay 15, 2024
@evacide crazy times we are leaving… surreal
Show threadPDX Dem Socialist 🏳️‍🌈 💖 🇺🇸May 15, 2024
@evacide Time to get a cam sheild
Show threadRobert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬May 15, 2024
@evacide smart devices with cameras, connected to some internet "platform" are pretty much always a bad idea
Show threadNathan SchneiderMay 15, 2024
@evacide the tesla owns you
Show threadJan BělohoubekMay 15, 2024
@evacide Unfortunately not surprising ... https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
*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
Show threadH4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦May 15, 2024
@evacide Not putting money into the pocket of the Incel Musk is all the reason I need to never buy Tesla. Big corps are hard to trust, but the Incel… never.
Show threadJonathan HendryMay 15, 2024

@evacide

TBQH it'd probably be a good idea to check for an upskirt camera.

Show threadToni AittoniemiMay 15, 2024

@evacide Hello European Comission @EU_Commission

It would seem that Tesla’s cavalier handling of sensitive customer data breaches the EU Data Governance Act of 11th January 2024.

EU law should protect consumers from having their personal data violated in the way revealed by Reuters article in the topic’s post.

When are you going to sue #Tesla for misconduct?

#EU #DataGovernanceAct

Show threadmadsenMay 15, 2024
@evacide I still find it super weird how they're allowed at all in the EU. I'm always getting creeped out when I walk by one or one passes close by.
Show threadLewis EdwardsMay 15, 2024
@evacide "The vehicle’s owner: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who had bought it for about $968,000 at an auction in 2013. It is not clear whether Musk was aware of the video or that it had been shared."
Show threadSite Reliability Enby🏳️‍⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷May 15, 2024
@evacide If you own a Tesla, you are directly funding Nazism, and if you bought it within the last 5 years you have absolutely zero excuse because Elon has been mask off for at least that long if not longer.
Show threadenthraxxxMay 15, 2024
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Not really new, but always worth repeting.
Show threadgh0sti May 15, 2024
@evacide every day I’m reminded of my joy that I can’t afford that steaming pile of shit.
Show threadStarstorm/CyberluxMay 15, 2024
@evacide And apparently, the American government is ignoring that when they assume Chinese cars are doing that instead. What is their logic anymore?
Show threadStarstorm/CyberluxMay 15, 2024
@evacide (But real talk: one day, something's gonna have to give and someone will make a car with no cameras and tracking again. If not, EV converting an older car may be the only way to have an EV that won't track your every move)
Show threadjMay 15, 2024
@evacide Company run by an asshole is comprised of assholes. Weird how that happens.
Show threadGustavo LitovskyMay 22, 2024

@evacide

To be fair, many less employees now and they're more worried about still being employed