0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Athena_Alpha 4 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Privacy is Normal. tech
FWIW the interior camera inside Tesla's can be covered with a $0.00 piece of tape and no functionality of the car is affected.
While we're 100% for privacy (we have an entire Privacy category dedicated to it!) and agree with what you're implying (increased surveillance, cameras everywhere etc being quite disturbing) Tesla doesn't seem to be abusing the interior camera... yet
Also they have 8 exterior cameras not 3-4 :)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @PRA3S3NT1A 4 Nov 2023
Perhaps you are right. I only found 3 outside and 1 inside.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena_Alpha 4 Nov 2023
There's (usually) 3 in the front windshield, two above each front wheel (in the indicator), two on each side of the B-Pillar between the doors and then another on the boot
They're seriously amazing pieces of tech, but alas, they do fail miserably at being privacy / open / verifiable unfortunately. Then again, ALL cars are utterly abysmal :(
We would LOVE for Tesla (and all cars) and the software they run to be as open and have a similar ethos as Bitcoin software does. Would be amazing! Some other articles you (and others) might be interested related to this...
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/impending-privacy-threat-self-driving-cars
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