Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki...
by borgbean on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:30PM
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100%. Weaponizing your customers' data against them is even worse than selling it.
Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki...
by nullc on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:23PM
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Selling it is just weaponizing it against the customer with extra steps.
Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki...
by woojoo666 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:01AM
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But are they selling that data, or using it to improve their products. There is a scale to privacy. With FOSS at one end, and Google/Facebook at the other. Apple is in the middle, and if Tesla keeps the data internal, then Tesla would be around the same place
Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki...
by FireBeyond on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:43AM
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I don't know, I'd argue that selling the data would be less offensive than using that data to disingenuously throw a customer under the bus for the sake of their own PR, actually.
Get into a car accident, and want some blackbox data from your Tesla? Good luck - get ready for a lot of legal costs.
Get into a car accident, and it makes Tesla look bad? Tesla will hold press conferences and release your telemetry data to the media, whether you want them to or not. Exceptionally misleading data in some cases - one fatality collision where autopilot was being blamed, Tesla said "Woah, hold up. Not true. Driver was distracted. In fact, the car warned him to put his hands on the steering wheel before the collision!"
In reality, the car had issued -one- warning about the steering wheel, and none after that, and that one warning was -eighteen minutes- before the collision.