A Boring Dystopia

9958 readers

524 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

221

Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles (self.aboringdystopia)

submitted 5 days ago by itsathursday to c/aboringdystopia

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-uses-cybertruck-explosion-to-show-tesla-can-remotely-unlock-and-monitor-vehicles/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I don't even know why people are surprised... Would they flip out if they heard about OnStar, which was super common to see in most cars made in the mid to late 2000's/2010's? They could do the same thing. They GPS track the vehicle, can remotely shut it off, open doors/windows, etc. And I know Teslas advertise this kind of functionality, having worked there and seeing that shit in the dealer at the front of the plant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Would they flip out if they heard about OnStar, which was super common to see in most cars made in the mid to late 2000’s/2010’s?

You could opt out of OnStar. It was optional.

Can you opt out of the current car surveillance collective? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Just because you could choose not to subscribe to the service doesn't mean the car still can't be monitored or controlled by them and they very likely still collected data regardless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Unlikely.

You might be too young to remember this, but privacy used to be a thing people paid attention to, at least moderately, even in the naughties and early tens. If OnStar had been caught deliberately spying on people who specifically rejected their service, it would have been a major scandal.

Nowadays the new normal is that Big Data does pretty much whatever they want unabated, people pretend to believe their privacy policies, and when tech monopolies are caught red-handed doing shady shit, people shrug and change the channel. But it wasn't always like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You can opt out of Tesla monitoring too, and if you do Tesla cannot remote connect to it.