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by oldjokes
2582 days ago
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One of the reasons I didn't buy a Tesla was because I didn't want Elon tweeting about my actions if something happened and I died on the road. The salesman laughed at me when I said this. While I acknowledge this is extremely unlikely, I'm still not interested. I want to be in control of all my data, all the time, in all situations. I don't want any third party to benefit from studying my behavior, ever. If you try to build a business model around mining people they are going to start fighting back sooner or later. |
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Also, you can opt-out of all tesla data collection.
There are a few levels of this. One is in the car's UI, LITERALLY hidden at the bottom of "safety and security" there is a [Data Sharing] screen that you have to scroll to see. It supposedly prevents video clips from being uploaded to tesla. Other parts of the UI ask for permission, such as traffic-aware routing. I don't know about the new chrome-based browser - we know google has baked tracking baked into chrome.
Level two is basically "disable the SIM" no online access. Stuff doesn't work, like the map tiles won't load from google and loads of other data can't be transferred to tesla.
It's still not clear what happens with level two when you enter a service center, because onboard wifi will auto-connect to tesla APs.