Lisa Kalayji"After the Cybertruck explosion outside of the Trump International Hotel in Vegas on Wednesday, Elon Musk remotely unlocked the Cybertruck for law enforcement and provided video from charging stations that the truck had visited to track the vehicle’s location...
With Teslas, it is not just remote unlocking and tracking ability that shows who holds the power here... It’s the fact that random Tesla workers spied on customers using onboard cameras and shared them with each other. It’s the fact that cops see Teslas near crime scenes as potential sources of video footage.
But surveillance and data collection and sharing that is justified or trialed in extreme situations one day becomes commonplace for more run-of-the-mill situations later on. In the aftermath of the San Bernardino mass shooting, Apple famously refused to help law enforcement break into the shooter’s iPhone or undermine its security because doing so would lead to less privacy for everyone. The type of third-party hacking capability that the FBI used to eventually get into the shooter's iPhone in what was then an extreme occurrence is now a capability that even local police have and is used every single day."
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