This is why I don't use startups' products: at a bigger company I have a lower likelihood of being looked at by a person.
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
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Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#202Reminds 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…
I feel conflicted whenever I see a comment like this. On the one hand, let's assume it's true: a Paytm employee acted negligently. But on the other hand, what if it's not true? What if you happen to have a friend or family member who works for a Paytm competitor, or you have some grudge against Paytm for whatever reason, and are instead spreading low-key FUD about the company to make it seem like they have lax data c…
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frankly, everyone is a risk to some extent, which is why it’s handy to just not give someone things that can be a problem if exposed. What they don’t know/don’t have, can’t be used against you. But someone with minimal direct criminal/financial risks of exposing something is definitely higher risk than others, and that is most startups. That said Amazon reps have clearly been bought out before, and individuals within…
At a fertility clinic they had paperwork that asked my employer, social security number etc. I asked if this was necessary, as I was paying out of pocket. They firmly said yes and asked me to fill it out. Guess who works for $State Fertility Group, with a social 111-11-1111 and makes 100M/year.
Birthday: January 1, 1970, 12am.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was at a hackathon once, and they had a startup fair, where various companies had their booths. One startup had created a student-management system for schools. And the rep was demoing the system. Except with live data. Showing pages of real students with their pictures, home addresses, etc! So, principles aside, the actions of companies are such that there can be no trust.
Someone should have walked up with their phone camera and shouted "ooh hey, nice addresses!" And just started snapping away (or at least pretending to)
Yeah. I would seriously have considered asking "did these students consent to the public dissemination of their personal data?" This kind of behavior will only go away when it becomes a shameful act in the eyes of the public.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. Just like Amazon, Facebook, Uber, NSA and other employees have done so as well. The only reason Apple or Google employees might not do that is encryption and decent access controls, not because they are better people. It would not shock me in the least if a Google or Apple employee did something similar. It might shock me a little just because of the risk/reward if they were just snooping on random people…
Apple would be the most shocking, given their ingrained company culture of secrecy and compartmentalization.
It would be harder for Apple employees to do too. Have you tried the Mail search? I can’t find things that are definitely there.
Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#206Wake me up when there's an EV that is just a car and not an always-connected surveillance device on wheels.
Our Chevy bolt was just that.
Just a normal car, but electric.
We have an Audi etron now and I can’t stand it. I miss the bolt.
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#207Yikes. So turning private images into memes and posting them internally isn't a fireable offence but union talk is? Such impeccable standards for conduct.
Amazon terminates you just for looking up someones order history beyond the need-to-kmow basis to solve a certain CS ticket. And rightly so. Well, Amazon doesn't like unions neither.
Amazon audits the use of the order database. As do banks for deposit information. As do google for looking up the contents of what's in someone's drive, etc, etc.
We've come to expect privacy as a first class right. That's why turning a customer's potentially embarrassing action into an internally shared meme feels like an extreme violation.
Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#208Reminds 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…
I feel conflicted whenever I see a comment like this. On the one hand, let's assume it's true: a Paytm employee acted negligently. But on the other hand, what if it's not true? What if you happen to have a friend or family member who works for a Paytm competitor, or you have some grudge against Paytm for whatever reason, and are instead spreading low-key FUD about the company to make it seem like they have lax data c…
Let's assume it's true: a Paytm employee acted negligently.
Not negligently - maliciously.
The employee knew exactly what they're doing, that it was "wrong" in any conventional sense -- and most likely a huge liability to their career and reputation if it got found out.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
> always-connected I'm betting the car always connects, it's just whether or not you enable any benefits of the connection. Anyone with actual knowledge about cars with such devices willing to chime in? Edit: consider how the car knows whether or not you're paying for any service.
Work in the industry -- the reason you have to pay is that the companies do not contract with Verizon/ATT/Tmo to have always on connection unless you eat the cost. This is changing going forward due to the value of always on system monitoring (DTCs, oil change interval etc) to say you didn't do your part and the warranty is void, but that's not on stuff from the last 10 years and won't ever be. Also, current things d…
Thank you.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
You guys buy premium car and then seal the interior components with tape here an there?!
So much worse than that, because they go online and simp for the company after doing it
"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."