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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Post by WalterBright »

plagiarist wrote: post #346
smodo wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly so. It is repugnant that level of access was even available to a employee based on nothing but curiosity. Unfortunately another part of human nature is that most people profiting off you don't give a shit about your privacy. This is why legislation such as HIPAA has to exist.

Do you really thing the people in government care about your privacy?

Let's be real. Nobody cares about your (or my) privacy.

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Post by JohnFen »

_mj0m wrote: post #324
SoftTalker wrote: post #255

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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…

When I was working for [blank] cellphone carrier we had a competing carrier fire their entire phone repair/support staff in the area because they were keeping a USB hard drive stash of nudes. Tech support staff would pass it from store to store and dump whatever nudes they'd collected from customer phone repairs that week. I don't remember how they got caught. I had to come down on multiple tech staff at our own stor…

> I had to come down on multiple tech staff at our own store for digging around in photos anytime a hot woman came in with a phone

By "come down on", I hope you meant "fire".

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Post by orblivion »

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…

I refuse to discuss certain topics during online therapy and generally avoid it overall. I wonder how secure that really is.

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Post by choppaface »

sidibe wrote: post #334
lucidrains wrote: post #308

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Yikes, didn't know this was an issue at Google as well. That is scary

These days pretty sure things are much more regulated and locked down for the giants. It would take a conspiracy with multiple employees in the right groups to access that type of data and there'd be a trail that gets detected fast.

You mean like when some eBay execs banded together to harass a user?

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126078948/live-spiders-and-c...

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Post by Mezzie »

rolenthedeep wrote: post #180
a4isms wrote: post #169

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I once had a classified ad software hustle, and I needed customer data to debug things. But one of my customers was Canada's largest gay newspaper, and ts classifieds were highly sensitive. So I wrote a routine that obfuscated the database, changing all phone numbers to 555-xxxx, changing all names to random names of fruit (So a customer might become Banana Grapes, 416-555-1234), and a few other changes to hide other…

I can't decide if replacing names from a gay newspaper with fruit is offensive or hilarious

I'm gay (although lady gay) and I think it's hilarious.

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Post by 98codes »

rootusrootus wrote: post #122
mikece wrote: post #21

Wake me up when there's an EV that is just a car and not an always-connected surveillance device on wheels.

Chevy Bolt. There are others, too, not every EV is trying to copy Tesla. Yes, OnStar, but that's 1) not specific to EVs, and 2) trivial to disable.

GM isn't nearly immune to this BS: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-a...

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Post by JohnFen »

fruit2020 wrote: post #126
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…

You are right, I’ve worked at a bunch of companies with millions of users and access to data was almost out of control within the company. Management doesn’t really care, including the data protection officers and the likes. I only hope Google has better policies, with all the data we store in emails and in docs.

> I only hope Google has better policies, with all the data we store in emails and in docs.

I wouldn't be willing to bet on it.

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Post by lm28469 »

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…

And then people complain about how GDPR is backward and useless :/

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Post by jjtheblunt »

progman32 wrote: post #227
jjtheblunt wrote: post #55

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BMW i3 was such a car, but they stopped making it. I loved mine (2014) but sold it needing longer range than first year battery size allowed.

Current owner of a '14 i3. Sorry, but the i3 has a telematics module and a cell modem. It talks to BMW. The first gen ones only have a 3g modem though, so at least they are muzzled in areas that have dropped that network.

true, true. i could get simple remote control and status via the MyBMW app, but it wasn't video recording me.

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Post by [deleted] »

fruit2020 wrote: post #126
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…

You are right, I’ve worked at a bunch of companies with millions of users and access to data was almost out of control within the company. Management doesn’t really care, including the data protection officers and the likes. I only hope Google has better policies, with all the data we store in emails and in docs.

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