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   BedastGPT (bedast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 05:17:33 JST BedastGPT

   If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

   And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/

   While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

   #Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:25:26 JST Rich Felker

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     @bedast Seems like a problem readily fixed with a can of spraypaint or a hammer & nail setter....

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:27:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Todd Knarr

     @bedast @tknarr The topic wasn't work resources but personal ones. Sysadmins looking at that in any way are engaging in grossly unethical and probably illegal acts.

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     BedastGPT (bedast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:27:23 JST BedastGPT

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     • Todd Knarr

     @tknarr As a long time sysadmin, this is absolutely true. It’s always baffled me when people use work resources for personal use and got in trouble for it, then complained their companies were spying on them.

     It’s just that I really don’t think people understand as all of these technologies grow and expand, surveillance will run deeper and deeper. And it’s all intentional. Especially in the age of sucking up as much data and content for training broken AI.

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     Todd Knarr (tknarr@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:27:24 JST Todd Knarr

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     @bedast It goes back a lot further. Rule #1 as far back as the age of mainframes is that the sysadmins can see *everything* you do. That's pretty much their job. It's just that, for the most part, we didn't care that much. Your porn was, frankly, nothing we hadn't seen dozens of times before and as long as you weren't interfering with normal operations we had more important things to do with our time.

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     Simon Zerafa (simonzerafa@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:28:03 JST Simon Zerafa

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     • Kevin Beaumont

     @bedast

     @GossiTheDog

     Absolute gold for the next round of litigation against Tesla 🙂🤷♂️

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:28:08 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @bedast
     Interesting. I'm very curious if they also do this in Europe. It's directly illegal in Finland at the very least, regardless of what legal agreement they have with the driver.

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     WesDym (wesdym@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:28:18 JST WesDym

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     @bedast Who would have thought that the employees of a company run by a douchebag might act like douchebags?

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     Come On Giant Asteroid! (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:29:18 JST Come On Giant Asteroid!

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     • -rb

     @bedast @dashrb

     You can also opt out by placing the vehicle in a crusher and pushing the button.

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     BedastGPT (bedast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:29:19 JST BedastGPT

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     • -rb

     @dashrb @VE2UWY There’s a lot more in the telematics. Like…a lot.

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     -rb (dashrb@awscommunity.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:29:21 JST -rb

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     • Come On Giant Asteroid!

     @VE2UWY @bedast there’s still audio

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     Come On Giant Asteroid! (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:29:24 JST Come On Giant Asteroid!

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     @bedast

     You can opt-out with tape.

     I recommend 3M Super 88.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:29:47 JST Rich Felker

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     • Come On Giant Asteroid!

     @VE2UWY @bedast Too much risk of it falling off. Hammer & nail setter is best, otherwise spraypaint.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:39:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Todd Knarr

     @tknarr @bedast In that case, whoever created the system that put data there that they shouldn't be able to see is at fault.

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     Todd Knarr (tknarr@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:39:23 JST Todd Knarr

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @bedast The servers involved belong to Tesla and are part of the sysadmins' responsibilities. This is something too many people fail to grok.

     And in too many cases the sysadmins aren't just allowed to look, they're legally required to look and to act on what they find.