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Asking some reasonable questions about Elon Musk's "help" with the Cybertruck bombing case
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It's no secret that Tesla has full access to telemetry and videos taken by Tesla cars. If you buy one, your only hope is that your footage is not interesting enough to be watched by Tesla employees. I remember reading a story about Tesla employees having internal memes made of footage that showed people captured by Tesla's surveillance in various (mostly unflattering) situations.
All the cameras/video/telemetry etc is like HR.
It's not to help you.
I'm feeling sick!
I have a vinyl cutter, can anybody tell my the diameters and quantities of the cameras on these cars? I’d like to start making and selling stickers to cover over them all.
Covering it wouldn't work unless you're trying to cover other people's camera without their knowledge at what point you could just use spray paint. The cameras are integrated into everything from blind spot alerts and cruise control and will constantly notify the driver if it's covered (even if it's dirty or in pitch black and the camera thinks it's covered).
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-car-camera-videos-employees-watching-1850307575
You still need to enable sharing for this to happen, but if you do, then they can probably do anything.
Otherwise they probably need a court order to violate their policy and would be open to lawsuits if it was discovered they were looking at video feeds with the setting disabled.
EDIT: Example below (note the fine is pathetic)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/siri-civil-lawsuit-settlement-apple-iphone-eavesdropping/
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.
The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade.
The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn't seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Some of the recorded conversations were then shared with advertisers in an attempt to sell their products to consumers more likely to be interested in the goods and services, the lawsuit asserted.
Edit: Further edit - I swear to god, that my partner would get advertisements for things we spoke out loud about, really odd things as well that we would NEVER have searched for. Maybe it was this.