Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand failed a recent privacy and security test from Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a "privacy nightmare" that may collect information as sensitive as your race, health status, and sexual activity.
Can I please just get a car, instead of a rolling computer / infotainment / privacy nightmare?
It looks like you’re right, the leaked videos only showed interiors recorded by Tesla’s cameras, not the video from the interior of the car itself. I must’ve misread a new article about this.
Sharing these videos is still a clear breach of trust and the Dutch DPA has already forced Tesla to limit the Sentry Mode capabilities for privacy reasons, but it looks like they haven’t completed their investigation into the Tesla Files case yet. I don’t know if the interior camera was abused in the same way, if it was I’m sure the investigation (or ongoing lawsuit) will tell.
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I had no idea that tesla employees had seen interior camera shots. Do you have an article?
It looks like you’re right, the leaked videos only showed interiors recorded by Tesla’s cameras, not the video from the interior of the car itself. I must’ve misread a new article about this.
Sharing these videos is still a clear breach of trust and the Dutch DPA has already forced Tesla to limit the Sentry Mode capabilities for privacy reasons, but it looks like they haven’t completed their investigation into the Tesla Files case yet. I don’t know if the interior camera was abused in the same way, if it was I’m sure the investigation (or ongoing lawsuit) will tell.
It’s also opt-in by the car owner. Even Firefox will suck up your private data if you opt-in yet this community seems fine with that.