Self-driving vehicles should be implemented with the same care Apple has given Touch ID and Face ID in regards to protecting sensitive data.
Having a central database capable of being scraped and process to determine where any person is at any given time is a non-starter. Care needs to be taken to scrub all extraneous data from the fleet's network.
A lot of things should be implemented in a particular way, but most aren't. Decades of practical experience show that, unless forced by regulations, auto manufacturer will pick the cheaper and more profitable option over the safe option every single time.
If I had to choose between privacy of my location or the convenience of a self driving car, I’d choose the car. Every single time.
Convenience wins out over privacy for me. It’s the same for the billions that elect to use Facebook. I don’t care if Tesla’s knows I visited the supermarket.
Tell that to guy that had smartwatch and his wife noticed he had high heart rate somewhere at night where he should be doing something else.
I don't have link for the story. But idea behind this is not that one should not cheat on his wife because he will get caught. To be really a human and be honest, one must not have an urge to cheat on his wife(husband) because he loves her. If someone has dirty thoughts and only thing that is preventing a person from fulfilling that is that "Tesla will know"...
People should be able to cheat, they also should be caught, but being good only because you are constantly watched?
This argument looks like "because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say".
If there are only autonomous cars that track your position how are you going to make trade off?
Right now I don't have Facebook but no one in my family or friends is contacting me. Why? Because I don't have Facebook. This is my trade off. Real trade off would be if I could select different provider and still be in contact with my family and friends. Right now it is monopoly degrading my quality of life. If I would have different options that I could for example pay for but they would not use my data as tracking that would be different.
If there would be way to pick your autonomous car provider by price/privacy it can be trade off.
If it is one option that you can use or not use it is not about trade off. I am not native English speaker but trade off for me is when you have multiple options to choose. No that you have all or nothing....
The problem is self-driving vehicles implemented with fleet data that vacuums up everything will spy on everyone, not just the driver.
They need to be implemented with on-board redaction.
Otherwise there is no choice for anyone, the companies or the ruling party can do facial or gait recognition on pedestrians and other drivers, and scrape license plates of of all parked and driving cars from the data stored in the cloud.
With just Lidar I imagine this is less of a problem, but at least pedestrians in that case will still need to be redacted for gait recognition.
My first comment wasn't about your regard to personal privacy, it was with regards to everyone's. One person's data is mostly worthless; everyone's is priceless.
Also FWIW Apple has a good track record with privacy, it's all opt-in.
Edit: Health data is also end-to-end encrypted (accessible by your devices only, Apple servers don't have keys, if you forget your passcode you lose the data); https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303
You already make this tradeoff - you have a bank account instead of hiding your money in a mattress. You're probably browsing the web from a normal internet connection, not a VPN, or some alternative?
Yes, and I have some control over that which I exercise regularly. Not enough control, but what I have I use proactively.
I'm also active in trying to wrestle more control of the data being collected on me.
And I am not willing to give up my privacy for your convenience and not happy with those who'd willingly give up theirs in a way that sweeps mine up with it.
Having a central database capable of being scraped and process to determine where any person is at any given time is a non-starter. Care needs to be taken to scrub all extraneous data from the fleet's network.