How does your Tesla spy on you for Musk?

What information does Tesla collect about you for Elon?

"Teslas are constantly in record mode, using cameras and other sensors to log every detail about what they encounter while driving, even when Autopilot is turned off.

• This includes short video clips from the car’s external cameras to learn how to recognize lane lines, street signs and traffic light positions.
• Tesla says the video snippets are not linked to the car's vehicle identification number, and there is no way to search its database for clips associated with a specific car.
• The data they collect could include your vehicle's location and your car's personal settings, such as contacts you've synced from your phone, addresses you've plugged into the navigation system, and even your favorite radio stations.
• Bystanders whose images are captured by Tesla's cameras don't have any ability to opt out, which presents potential privacy concerns.

How does Tesla collect data about you? Your passengers? Where you drive? How fast? Where you park? How long do you stay there? Who is around car? How does it send the information collected back to Tesla headquarters? How is this data used? Start with this infographic.

What Tesla knows about you

You should be worried about Tesla’s trove of private vehicle data

"Connected vehicles generate a significant amount of information useful for manufacturers. Some, like Tesla, use this information to train future fleet vehicles by comparing a vehicle’s expected behavior to a human’s actual actions. It then compiles this data (which may contain information generated by sensors, cameras, and potentially location information) in a package to send back to Tesla’s servers.

Even when Tesla vehicles aren’t operating in the partially automated Autopilot mode, they’re operating in something called “Shadow Mode” that simulates the driving process as if Autopilot were engaged. When a deviation occurs between the car’s expected behavior and the driver’s actions, the vehicle creates a snapshot of the data—that includes location, camera data, vehicle speed, and other various sensor data—and pumps it back to the mothership for review." - The Drive

Can you trust Elon with your personal data?

"Elon Musk’s X under fire over harvesting users’ data to train AI chatbot. X is facing scrutiny from its main European privacy regulator over collecting people’s posts to train its artificial intelligence chatbot, a move that may infringe upon data protection rules. The social media platform came under fire today for harvesting users’ data for its AI chatbot Grok without notifying them or asking for consent." - Politico

Take Away: Beware of billionaires with political ambitions collecting data about you, your friends, movements and more.

Deepak
DemLabs

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