On the eve of Musk's visit to China, Tesla exposed the "privacy door", and the FSD landed in China?

Tesla Musk will visit China this week, but before coming, Tesla owners in the United States have fried the pot, Tesla has been subject to a large number of owners in the United States class action lawsuits, caused by Tesla once again exposed privacy security issues.

Between 2019 and 2022, Tesla employees privately shared some highly intrusive videos and images taken by customers' car cameras through an internal messaging system, which are not only from the outside camera, but also the "leak point" inside the camera. And Tesla will not only look at the camera images of ordinary Tesla owners, they will even look at the camera images of Musk's Tesla vehicles.

Tesla is subject to a class action lawsuit again, and there is no long memory in terms of data privacy?

Tesla makes it clear in its Customer Privacy Note that "the contents of camera recordings of Tesla vehicles remain anonymous and will not be associated with you or your vehicle."

But seven former Tesla employees said the computer programs they used at work could display location data from recordings, and image information would also show where the shoots were taken, which could be linked to where Tesla owners lived.

And Tesla's "Sentinel Mode" has recently been warned by the Netherlands, Germany and other countries that it may violate local laws, although Tesla officially said that the data collected in the Sentinel mode will only remain in the car and will not be uploaded to the cloud, but these countries do not allow vehicles to shoot passers-by in public. At the same time, this time after Tesla employees were able to see and share images taken by customers' cars, Tesla's claim that data would only be saved in the car was actually untenable. Inside and outside the car video car companies can not only watch, but even download and share, which makes in order to comply with the regulations, but also remove the function or spend the cost to code peers, really can't swallow this breath.

In some Tesla "crazy, can't stop" accidents before, Tesla's data has always shown that they are okay, it is the driver's fault, but there has always been a voice on the network that Tesla tampers with data in the background, but common sense tells us that EDR cannot be changed, but we also did not think that car company staff can see the camera of our vehicles at any time, Tesla's credibility in privacy security and data security was pulled down again after this incident.

Privacy is not valued, and the landing of FSD in China is still empty talk?

In response to Musk's visit to China, many people in the outside world believe that Musk is talking about business in order to expand production, and may also be consulting with domestic high-level officials about the possibility of Tesla FSD landing. For Tesla FSD to land in China, this matter has been widely spread, and there is news that Tesla FSD will carry out a wide range of road tests in China.

Tesla's long-term inability to land in the domestic FSD is a thing that manufacturers and many domestic owners who have spent a high price to open FSD are unwilling to face up, because Tesla has indeed not fulfilled the domestic FSD function, and many owners have not experienced the high-end experience brought by their extra spending of 60,000 until they sell the car.

But after this Tesla "owner privacy" incident, it may directly affect the landing process of FSD in China, although Tesla has established a database in China, similar to Apple Cloud on Guizhou, and also established a research and development center, but what is the point? Tesla employees in the U.S. don't want to watch it yet?

At present, Tesla has only opened the FSD Beta in the United States, and recently wants to develop the European market, but there are many obstacles, in fact, Tesla wants to land FSD anywhere except the United States, and the problem encountered is the same, that is, governments do not want to have such a full-body camera iron pimple, collecting data in their own country every moment.

Even if Tesla is actively circumventing privacy or becoming a "spy car" in any market, as long as Tesla wants to train for self-driving, it cannot overcome the problem of invasion of privacy or data collection.

Tesla's FSD and intelligent cockpit systems typically require a large number of human employees during training to assist machines in automated tasks such as learning to drive. Since 2016, Tesla has hired hundreds of employees to mark images in low-cost regions like Africa, helping Tesla's systems learn how to recognize pedestrians, road signs, construction vehicles, garage doors, and other objects users may encounter on the road or at home.

In this process, a lot of manual operation is required, and humans are required to look at the massive data collected by the camera, and then mark specific things in these pictures or video content, and no one will pursue what the staff has seen and recorded. After automatic driving, now OpenAI and other companies train AI artificial intelligence large models, using the same to go to Africa to find cheap labor, for text and other content data to mark, although not as sensitive as Tesla's data, but may also involve privacy and security issues.

A former Tesla employee once said: "To be honest, Tesla's training for automatic driving is an invasion of privacy." After seeing how they treat certain owners, I always joke that I will never buy a Tesla car. ”

And Tesla to land FSD in China, is bound to first carry out a long time of testing, or in the form of FSD Beta to test, which will also produce massive data, although the database has been established in 2021 in China, but to really control Tesla, so that Musk's promise of "Tesla China all data in China" can be established, it is not easy, so FSD wants to land in China, it becomes more difficult.

And not only Tesla, the domestic new forces leaked data is not once or twice, and the background function is a stronger new force car companies, where the cars they sell, how far they drive, can understand clearly, so how to prevent ghosts in the enterprise, will be the future of the rapid development of intelligent cars at the same time, in front of all car companies a big problem, after all, the perception of vehicles and real-time data generated is too much, car companies know too much, The new National Data Bureau may be targeting these developing contradictions.

Regarding data retention in China, the current more prominent is Apple's cloud Guizhou, in order to improve the user's cloud data download delay and other issues, Apple and cloud Guizhou cooperation, Chinese users' iCloud data are stored in the cloud Guizhou, and Apple has data privacy and a more complete security protection mechanism, will not create a backdoor in any of Apple's systems, in addition, Apple also said that Apple will cooperate with Guizhou on the cloud, and will only respond to data requests that comply with legal procedures. Apple can't unlock key-protected devices, such as iPhones or iPads.

Summary:

Apple, with the iOS ecosystem and the domestic data cloud library, has indeed protected the data privacy of Chinese users well, but we have also seen the opposite teaching materials, Google lost the domestic market because it did not put data in China, coupled with violations of other relevant laws and regulations. And Tesla has problems with privacy and data not once or twice, and its casualness is likely to make FSD still unable to land in China, if it still opens the back door to the data privacy part, the implementation is discounted, it is completely possible to step into Google's footsteps.