A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.
This is becoming a real concern. An ambulance company in my area has been found to have cameras facing the patients recording audio and video.
This shit is getting out of hand.
Edit: Replaced with a better link.
Ambulances in germany have a camera recording everything that is happening inside.
It protects the patients if the first responders fuck up or are psychos. And it protects the workers from false claim court cases.
Whats bad about that?
Hmm thinking about it, I guess in germany the ambulance is not run by companies.
Does this also mean they can’t discuss patient information around Alexa or Google Nest, or pretty much any smartphone? It’s really hard to not get your voice recorded and sent to the corponet these days.
In the case of Alexa or Google Nest, it’s not actually constantly recording or sending stuff to the cloud. Those things have a special wake-word chip, that is trained on one or a few phrases (okay google). That’s fully offline, and only once it detects the wake word does it activate the actual microphone and processing.
If you believe Google and Amazon, that is. Which I surely don’t. But if they were actually constantly recording and sending that data somewhere, security researchers would have noticed odd traffic in their network.
Private conversations - doctors, security - can’t be held within earshot of Alexa or its ilk simply because the wake word triggers the sending of audio to America, which violates privacy and sovereignty regs in orgs that pay attention to the rules they all must adhere to and don’t want to be investigated.
This often means phones to be used near those conversations require some disabling of agent trash.
Funny, I was just arguing with someone who swears up and down that no car company is actually doing this.
It’s the law that every US car company will be doing this soon!
Hey look, it is one of those things that would be great if it worked perfectly and never sent data out from the vehicle but since it won’t be perfect and it will absolutely be designed to send telemetry it will be a dystopian nightmare as the article points out.
I’m mostly in the same boat. It would be neat, but auto manufacturers have already started grumbling about the money it will cost to build one of these devices, and there’s no way they would fail to either
- pass this cost on to the consumer, or
- collect the data to sell later, or
- simply do both. Probably this one.
Money isn’t my objection. I think mandating safety equipment like back up cameras is a good thing.
This is fantasy tech that will never work reliably for the entire population and therefore it should not be required even if it was free.
And its very silent on major news Media. Wonder why. Should be mass outrage and riots.
Maybe she should have thought about that before she bought the car…
In the title it says the car was a loaner. You didnt even have to read the article to realise she did not choose to buy this car. She was lent this car by her dealership.
I’d like to live in a world where that isn’t a concern
Reading comprehension is chasing you but you’ve always been quicker
