Tesla and Other Car Manufacturers Prove US Needs National Privacy Law

Tesla employees were passing around videos taken from parked Tesla vehicles, including those in people’s private homes:

Such footage offered Tesla employees a glimpse inside “people’s garages and their private properties,” one ex-employee told Reuters. Footage of “distinctive” findings on customer property would then be posted across the company.

This reminded be about an article I read a couple months back, before I went into the hospital. While the actions at Tesla are uniquely obnoxious, care manufacturers are almost universally destroying our privacy. The Mozilla foundation tested the privacy of cars, and found that car manufacturers routinely do the following with your data:

All 25 tested capture more data than is necessary for running the car and use that data to do things other than, well, run the car.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/23/2278775/-Tesla-and-Other-Car-Manufacturers-Prove-US-Needs-National-Privacy-Law

I worked for 45 years in the telecommunications business. These days it's mostly data but years ago voice communication was the service that was sold.

If we were to work on a circuit we would monitor it to be sure no one was using it. If it was, we'd leave the monitor (speaker) on it then do our work when their call ended.

We had to sign a pledge not to divulge anything we might have heard.

Sounds like Elon and his tech bros. do not feel required to honor anyone's privacy.