Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would they flip out if they heard about OnStar, which was super common to see in most cars made in the mid to late 2000’s/2010’s?

  You could opt out of OnStar. It was optional.

  Can you opt out of the current car surveillance collective? I don’t think so.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just because you could choose not to subscribe to the service doesn’t mean the car still can’t be monitored or controlled by them.

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    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unlikely.

      You might be too young to remember this, but privacy used to be a thing people paid attention to, at least moderately, even in the naughties and early tens. If OnStar had been caught deliberately spying on people who specifically rejected their service, it would have been a major scandal.

      Nowadays the new normal is that Big Data does pretty much whatever they want unabated, people pretend to believe their privacy policies, and when tech monopolies are caught red-handed doing shady shit, people shrug and change the channel. But it wasn’t always like that.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can opt out of Tesla monitoring too

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