Summary:
- Self-driving cars collect a massive amount of data, including visual and other information.
- This data could be used to track people’s movements, which could pose a threat to privacy.
- There is a lot of uncertainty about how this data is stored, secured, and accessed.
- Law enforcement agencies have already served warrants to self-driving car companies for footage.
- It is important to have strong privacy laws that address the data collected by self-driving cars.
- We need to know more about how much footage police request and how companies respond to these requests.
- Regulators need to consider the civil liberties implications of self-driving car data collection.
We don’t have to wait for self-driving for this. It’s been going on for a number of years now. Self driving tech just makes it worse.
I’m already avoiding buying new cars because of this issue for a while now. My newest car is from 2005, and I intend to keep it that way.
It sucks that all the electric cars are ruined by spying, but at least I’m happy with the e-bike I bought this spring.