The recent explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, packed with fireworks, has sparked debate about vehicle data privacy. Tesla's extensive data collection on the driver's movements, which proved valuable to police, raises questions about who should have access to this information as vehicles increasingly resemble computers.
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Many of the latest cars not only know where you’ve been and where you are going, but also often have access to your contacts, your call logs, your texts and other sensitive information thanks to cell phone syncing. “I have to thank Elon Musk, specifically,” said Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill to reporters. “He gave us quite a bit of additional information.““It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “When something bad happens, it’s helpful, but it’s a double edged sword. Companies that collect this data can abuse it.
Tesla did not respond to emailed questions about its privacy policy. On its website, Tesla says it follows strict rules for keeping names and information private. “This is one of the biggest ethical issues we have around modern vehicles. They're connected,” he said. “Consumers need to have control over their data.”
There are no federal laws regulating car data similar to those that restrict information collection and sharing by banks and health care providers. And state laws are a grab-bag of various rules, mostly focused on data privacy in general.
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