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Coverage dated January 3, 2025

Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns

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Data collected by Tesla on the driver and vehicle in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and then shared with law enforcement has shined a spotlight on a difficult ethical question for the auto industry: Are companies violating your privacy rights? Many cars now not only know where you’ve been, they …

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  1. WHEC Rochester

    Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns (opens WHEC Rochester)

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    Data collected by Tesla on the driver and vehicle in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and then shared with law enforcement has shined a spotlight on a difficult ethical question for the auto industry: Are companies violating your privacy rights? Many cars now not only know where you’ve been, they …

  2. ABC 7 Los Angeles

    Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data after Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion (opens ABC 7 Los Angeles)

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    Data collected by Tesla in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and then shared with law enforcement has shined a spotlight on an ethical question.

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