Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
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#2Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours.
The only three things keeping me here are:
1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car
2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far
3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running Linux or android automative.
The second point will be moot soon with regulations requiring sharing network access.
The third is getting less important as more brands support CarPlay , and according to last wwdc, CarPlay is getting support to control more of your car. (Though GM went the other direction)
Which leaves the wasteful part…which maybe it’s worth it to have a car that isn’t spying on me and changing its UI around every few months in new and awful ways. Seriously, the driver can’t see the music info anymore because it’s moved to their blind spot AND it’s further for the passenger to control? Do Tesla designers drive the cars before shipping their UI?
And now this flagrant invasion of privacy, with seemingly no controls for access or opt-in? Ridiculous.
Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#3Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours. The only three things keeping me here are: 1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car 2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far 3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running L…
I can understand if you already have a Tesla. What blows my mind are the people continuing to buy new ones.
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#5Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours. The only three things keeping me here are: 1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car 2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far 3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running L…
You can opt out of uploading anything to Tesla, but sharing is on by default.
Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#6We've come to expect tech companies to surveil us constantly, so the idea that some Tesla employees could access this footage is unsurprising. I think, however, when a customer buys something this expensive they must have some kind of expectation that the data would be used in a responsible way.
The fact that these videos are posted as memes and jokes about customers' private lives, is... well, terrible. Tech startup culture has certainly been known to foster this kind of immaturity (I have very well seen it first hand...), but coming from a car company - as recently as 2022, if not even later - this is horrifying.
I'd like to think that the major auto makers are not infected with the kind of culture that would condone this sort of thing, but maybe I'm just naive...
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#7> Tesla staffed its San Mateo office with mostly young workers, in their 20s and early 30s, who brought with them a culture that prized entertaining memes and viral online content. Former staffers described a free-wheeling atmosphere in chat rooms with workers exchanging jokes about images they viewed while labeling.
> According to several ex-employees, some labelers shared screenshots, sometimes marked up using Adobe Photoshop, in private group chats on Mattermost, Tesla’s internal messaging system. There they would attract responses from other workers and managers. Participants would also add their own marked-up images, jokes or emojis to keep the conversation going. Some of the emojis were custom-created to reference office inside jokes, several ex-employees said.
Work environments should ideally be fun and collegial. But I just would've assumed that it's incredibly obvious that managers should not encourage a culture of memeing and shitposting when the job is so centered on private user images.
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#8Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours. The only three things keeping me here are: 1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car 2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far 3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running L…
I can understand if you already have a Tesla. What blows my mind are the people continuing to buy new ones.
Take it as a lesson in what consumers value. Give the market what it wants and you’ll be rewarded, even if you’re not an ideal actor.
Re: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
#9Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours. The only three things keeping me here are: 1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car 2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far 3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running L…
You can opt out of uploading anything to Tesla, but sharing is on by default.
Are these 2 different things? (uploading vs sharing)
Where are the settings for those?
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#10Honestly, every time Tesla or their overlord is in the news, I get closer to wanting to sell ours. The only three things keeping me here are: 1. It’s a waste to sell this and buy a new car 2. Tesla still have the best charging network by far 3. Tesla are one of the only car company outfitting their vehicles with decent processors. Which is extra important now that everyone moves their stuff to touch screens running L…
I can understand if you already have a Tesla. What blows my mind are the people continuing to buy new ones.
"Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" great name, great album.