And like Tesla, they can record and share anything and everything they drive by - your bank, your church, your side girl’s house, your hotel, your office, your drug dealer… everything.
And to which work and when you don’t etc. they can derive meaningful information from the patterns they capture and you have never thought what they can know from the combined data they collect, have you? Seriously, this abrogation of responsibility from users is why tech fascism is unfolding.
Oh no, they will watch me driving back and forth to work every day.
the yanks already do
Or maybe, like Tesla employees, they’ll be snooping inside your garage when you and the gf are doing some naughty or illegal things: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
And like Tesla, they can record and share anything and everything they drive by - your bank, your church, your side girl’s house, your hotel, your office, your drug dealer… everything.
This paranoia is driven by people who think they are so exceptional that foreign governments need to watch them all day.
If this bothers you, put tape over the cameras or pull the SIM card.
Like most EVs, I assume the Chinese will have over the air connections (ostensibly for “updates”) so good luck with ‘pulling the SIM card’
Any programmer worth his salt is going to have a “Your cameras appear to be dirty, please clean them before engaging Drive function” error message.
I dont think Im exceptional enough to follow. I DO think AI is powerful enough to follow EVERYONE and collate all our data for foreign intelligence.
Jesus fuck, this is the shit I heard back around 2006 wrt Facebook.
and in 20 years, nothing has happened. Maybe I’m just not important.
Should BYD vehicles be allowed on military bases, or carrying federal employees?
And to which work and when you don’t etc. they can derive meaningful information from the patterns they capture and you have never thought what they can know from the combined data they collect, have you? Seriously, this abrogation of responsibility from users is why tech fascism is unfolding.