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by onethought 1480 days ago
Armchair lawyering:

It's only if they link the data to an identity. If I were Tesla I would collect the data in an anonymous manner, meaning the data isn't YOURs i.e. there is no way to identify you in the data. Likely they do this via the VIN, it is not private, attaching data to VIN is vehicle data not personal data.

Pretty sure that would be compliant with California/European privacy law.
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NonNefarious 1480 days ago
Mmm, but then they wouldn't be able to comply with even a court order to surrender the data in regard to an accident.

So I'm going to say... no, because the data are linked to a vehicle and thus to a person.

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onethought 1479 days ago
That’s not how it works. If the data is connected to the VIN it is likely considered Teslas data, not yours. (Just like googles logs are theirs, even though your IP/fingerprint is in there). The data they store explicitly against your identity is yours by right in those states that have decent privacy law. It doesn’t include secondary/tertiary/derived data.

If you request your data from Google - you don’t get any web logs… but they definitely have them.

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