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by notheguyouthink 3480 days ago
> The car has all those cameras covering the outside of the vehicle

This raises a good point i never thought about. If in some day all of our cars have self driving or self aware features, then that means nearly all locations in the city are within reach of cameras and possibly microphones. I'm not "a paranoid" about privacy stuff, but that is quite impressive nonetheless.

The future is going to be quite interesting. I always thought we'd end up with cameras on every street corner monitoring everything. I never thought our own cars could become every present monitoring devices.

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Your phone is more omnipresent and knows about as much as your car would.
Yes but i'm not trying to evade detection. If i was, i would obviously not bring a phone with me. I can't however, avoid all cars, everywhere.
The UK already has millions of CCTV cameras set up like this.

You might find this article interesting: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/one-nation-under-cctv

I didn't thought of it that way round! I was concerned with cameras & microphones inside the car, but as you say, it's likely that there will be microphones on the outside too.