In the United States we have "LoJack" but it's not a standard feature rather a dealer upsell.
I'd rather not give law enforcement or anyone else the ability to "track" me on a whim. If it's stolen, I'll take the hit on my deductible and also keep my privacy.
If it becomes ubiquitous, is only a matter of time before it becomes mandatory. Or, the car maker sells your data and pretends that doing so helps offset the cost of making the car, the way the TV makers do.
That said, my wife's car came with a tracker. It was free when we bought the car. Around the fourth year, we got a letter in the mail stating that it would suddenly cost $40/month, and if we didn't pay, we could no longer be tracked. Sounded good to me!
Thus, it would be your behavior which would be considered anomalous. So yes, definitely an assumption, although not an unwarranted one.
I assume license plate readers make that moot, especially in areas with toll roads.
That does not sound legal in quite a few places.
I have a Subaru with the EyeSight system for lane detection, adaptive cruise control, etc. It’s annoying that the cameras are RIGHT THERE and always on, and they even store a 22-second history that can be accessed by police or insurance in case of a crash, but I, as the vehicle owner with a vested interest in access to the feed, have no way of tapping into it and storing it for myself.
My info came from the forum posts I found while explicitly looking for how to use the cameras as a dashcam a while ago. Some of them linked to the spots in the user manual that mention the 22-second loop, but the manual doesn’t have more info on how the access works. All I really know for sure is “we haven’t figure out how to get to it ourselves” and the rest is what I picked up from those threads.
Looks like it has been updated for a few years.
https://www.aepd.es/sites/default/files/2019-09/informe-juri...
For example, you can't use dashcam recordings of an accident in trial.
* And I don't want to spend a bunch of time reading law but quite sure this is very tied in with GDPR, so I'd say that most probably in all Europe everything you record on the street is still subject to the privacy rights of whomever you record.
Doesn't this entirely defeat the purpose of having a dashcam?
What's the rationale to that? Concern over manipulated videos? That would seem dumb if the video files are transferred at the accident (which happens in USA).
I don't think the cars have the bandwidth to stream it in realtime, but they do upload bits of camera and telemetry data to help train Tesla's self-driving software. The car has settings that let you opt out of this data sharing.
Regarding location data: That's true for most cars sold today and it isn't particularly new. How else would cars have turn-by-turn directions? I think it was 2011 when GM began storing GPS data from cars with OnStar. Even if you avoided owning a car with GPS, there's still the issue of automatic license plate readers. These days, the only way to guarantee that your drive won't be tracked is to steal someone else's car.
If you're like most people, you carry your phone with you. That means that Apple/Google knows where you are. Ditto for your phone company and probably quite a few other companies that have apps on your phone. And if you don't have a phone or a car, you probably walk past a bunch of cameras every day (including cameras on self-driving vehicles). These cameras will only get smarter and more numerous.
Privacy is dead. Most people just don't know it yet.
> Privacy is dead. Most people just don't know it yet.
It certainly is if you accept it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SALEM/comments/l0nohv/mischievous_a...
Video is only recorded locally if Sentry mode is enabled (when parked) or Dashcam is enabled (when driving). Sentry mode prevents the car from going to sleep / opening the HV contactor, which costs a small amount of battery if it's enabled for long periods.
The car's location is accessible through the app, so this is sent through Tesla's servers.
And for even locally - you need to buy ssd and plug it in to start recording video from sentry/dashboard.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMoDtZ6Ani-eyHzCvxeVCw
In the US, there's a product/service called Phantom Footprints that many dealers offer as an add-on. They affix tamper-evident stickers (the sort that leave a 'tattoo' if removed)/laser engrave a unique identifier that ties the vehicles/parts back to the owner in a database maintained by Phantom Footprints. On some vehicles, getting it installed and registering can even get you a discount on car insurance.
There's also the question of who you want tracking your movements.