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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by rzimmerman »

It sounds like the privacy guarantees of “camera data isn’t linked to your ID” and “the interior camera data stays in the car” aren’t really useful if all the data is geotagged, given that these cars spend 70%+ of their time at the owner’s home.

I’ll save my outrage for more facts, but if employees can look at my camera feeds without a valid business purpose (and post memes made from them without getting fired immediately) that’s a real problem. If the geotag data is freely available with the video data (and not controlled for privacy) that’s also a huge problem. A company the size and age of Tesla has no excuse for lapses like that.

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

Phlarp wrote: post #259
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Stop making fun of my favorite billion dollar company. I just gave them 80k of my hard earned cash, therefore it must be good, and you should also buy it."

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But can your Ford Fusion play Doom or The Witcher 3 on the media unit? Thought so.

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Post by PakG1 »

varun_chopra wrote: post #32

Reminds me of the time I bought lunch at work, and a colleague told me exactly what I bought and how much I paid for it. I called him out and said it was a lucky guess, and then he proceeded to tell me my entire payment history for the past 2 days. Turns out when I was buying lunch, he was on the phone with a friend who worked at Paytm and that guy gave away my transaction history for shits and giggles. My trust in p…

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by [deleted] »

jimt1234 wrote: post #258
lucidrains wrote: post #237

When I was working at Uber, we had a case of a guy stalking his ex-girlfriend's every movement through the backend. They eventually found out, fired him, and stepped up auditing.

Didn't this happen at Google a few years ago? I recall something about a guy that was accessing his ex's Google data, like email, chats, contacts, and so on.

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Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by LightBug1 »

The apple doesn't fall far from the...

Whether I'm right or wrong, my perception is that this is just the kind of nonsense I could imagine Elon Musk having a great laugh about. That must feed through to the employees.

I won't touch a Tesla while that foolish child is in charge. And, even then, the brand is so damaged (in my eyes) that'll it'll take a decade for me to even think twice about them again.

So glad I thought better about buying one a few years ago when I was a huge fan of Tesla. I delayed the purchase for some practical reason and have seen their brand decline ever since.

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by dgellow »

barbazoo wrote: post #172
submeta wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get a German car. Privacy is taken extremely seriously here in Germany. In all walks of life. Companies, schools, doctor‘s offices, etc. Edit: I wouldn’t want to touch a Tesla even if it was gifted to me. Seeing the founder behave the way he does (latest incident: Changing Twitter’s logo to a shitcoins image) makes him extremely unsympathetic to me.

Is that true for cars made for markets that are not Germany? It's not that German car makers are inherently more ethical so I'd assume they do whatever they can get away with in whatever jurisdictions they sell their cars.

Yeah, German car manufacturers aren’t known for their great sense of ethics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by jimt1234 »

croutonwagon wrote: post #79
giantg2 wrote: post #50

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Wishing I still had my 89 Caprice with physical buttons and switches. Parts were insanely cheap too (except the transmission, which I part of why I got rid of it).

This is why I’m keeping my 09 Toyota. Upgraded the radio to a CarPlay capable head unit. But it was the perfect fit of modern safety features, a couple nice to haves like backup camera, but none of that always connected on star style crap. Will drive it till it rusts out and in praying the market will have corrected by then

I still own a 2000 Nissan with a cassette deck. I just wish it had a manual transmission, too.

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by smodo »

SoftTalker wrote: post #255
varun_chopra wrote: post #32

Reminds me of the time I bought lunch at work, and a colleague told me exactly what I bought and how much I paid for it. I called him out and said it was a lucky guess, and then he proceeded to tell me my entire payment history for the past 2 days. Turns out when I was buying lunch, he was on the phone with a friend who worked at Paytm and that guy gave away my transaction history for shits and giggles. My trust in p…

What you must understand is that this is human nature not "private companies." When I was in high school I had a friend who worked at one of those 1-hr photo processing places. People would bring their film in to have prints made. And there were no small numbers of "intimate" photos on those rolls of film. Yes even in the days of film cameras, people took photos of themselves in sexual situations. Of course my friend…

I assume they don’t mean that they are baffled by human nature. The thing that’s sort of unexpected is that, knowing human nature, companies don’t build in safeguards for this kind of sh.

Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by recursive »

Phlarp wrote: post #259
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Stop making fun of my favorite billion dollar company. I just gave them 80k of my hard earned cash, therefore it must be good, and you should also buy it."

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I don't own a Tesla, and I'm not an apologist. But there are multiple reasons to own the car. And not all of them have to do with saving the planet, cameras, or the glovebox.
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