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Woman discovers a hidden AI camera in her rental car recording her and warning about unsafe driving (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev

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A woman recently took to social media after discovering that her Audi rental car's dashboard contained a camera recording her every move. It also gave verbal reminders...

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

there isn't a big privacy issue as compared to the benefit in the health and safety and property of others.

So, now we're measuring invasion of privacy based on "the health and safety and property of others"?

I strongly disagree with your assertion that "there isn't a big privacy issue" here. From the top of my head:

Did the rental company advise the customer before they got into the car?
What other details were recorded?
What is the process to erase the data?
Who has access to it under which circumstances?
How long is it retained?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

So, now we’re measuring invasion of privacy based on “the health and safety and property of others”?

I know you jest, but I can't think of a single violation of privacy that hasn't been excused by using this metric! It's always about saving the children and preventing the crimes.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago

The article does not provide that data, as far as I could tell at a scroll. They really tried to get up there in the word count so who knows.

Archiving and saving that data seems like a nightmare with little gain. I am going to save my rage for when it is warranted.

In the EU sold cars must have parts of this feature in order to be sold legally. This feels like ragebait.