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My 2021 car has this. it has no cellular data connection or significant internal storage and the camera just has what I assume is a very basic neural net that looks for signs of distraction. like the eye tracker modules some phones and laptops have. These are low-res greyscale IR cameras usually.
I'm OK with it, and it's helped me out a few times, though I know some cars are more aggressive and beep at you just for looking at your own mirrors.
Some cars however have full time cabin recording that you dont have much control over, and some do have full time data connections that could theoretically send some kind of snapshots on events, but they arent going to do full time video streaming or uploading large video files.
Yeah they definitely aren't going to record you and share with coworkers for their entertainment. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
yet another reason why I dont like Teslas, or honestly any vehicles with onboard video recording and cellular connections.
I dont like being constantly monitored. I dont want to normalize the lack of privacy.
my phones are pin or pattern only
I do a pass code, but yeah, no finger prints or shudders facial scans
Am i the only one using the simple slide up to unlock?
Some simple patterns code can be very quick to do, and not much different from a slide up, while still keeping most people out.
Honestly, I would guess you're one of a very small minority, yeah. Because phones get lost, stolen, or confiscated by fascist "law enforcement" pretty commonly. Or someone you know picks it up while you're gone.
Most people like a degree of privacy. Even my grandma has a pin on her phone.
Yeah I've noticed that most people are rather baffled when i say i have no passcode or anything on my phone.
I just find that the risk of any of the affirmationd things happening is low enough that it doesn't outweigh the annoyance that comes from entering passcodes tens of times a day.
But I'm not in the USA so risk profiles are slightly different.
I would suggest to start practicing to say goodbye to privacy, bank accounts, etc etc etc etc etc, when your phone is stolen.
Bank account does have a passcode, mandatory. Steam as well. Privacy is kinda irrelevant, what's a random thief going to do with my messages or grocery list?
Good thing i have a phone that's not really marketable and thus not really tempting anyone to steal it.
But how likely is it that a phone gets stolen? Of course that might depend on a location, but locally that's an anomaly. So it's the old point of security feature itself becoming a bigger nuisance than the threat of whatever it's trying to protect me from.
What happens when you wear sunglasses?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.