Does anyone know about privacy in the model s. Is tesla always tracking your location and car stats? Is there a way to disable that?
Best bet is to go an old car with no electronics, and wired phone to your desk. Oh and avoid any roads that have cameras that can plate scan. May want to wear a mask when you go to the mall too, face scanning tech is getting pretty good.
>Even if they are turned off.
Citation needed.
>By September 2004, the NSA had developed a technique that was dubbed “The Find” by special operations officers. The technique, the Post reports, was used in Iraq and “enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/22/nsa_can_r...
but it probably buffers the data locally to upstream to tesla later when it cannot communicate
it's one of my imaginary dilemmas if I ever won the lottery and bought a Model X
it's not like you can run cyanogenmod on your tesla - yet
I'm not sure why the car tracking me bothers me but a cellphone doesn't.
for example if the police wanted to be sure to stop all teslas that cross their jurisdiction so they could seize whatever you happen to have with you (or even the car itself) under civil forfeiture without arrest, warrants or even proof of crime, all they have to is program their stingrays to ping them when a tesla cell connection that the car uses for data comes into contact
I have other scenarios in my head too but I don't want to give them ideas for abuse