Tesla makes camera settings more privacy-friendly after AP investigates
Car manufacturer Tesla has made the settings of its built-in security cameras in cars more privacy-friendly. Tesla did this after the Personal Data Authority (AP) instituted an investigation into those cameras.The AP was investigating Tesla's so-called "Sentry Mode. Sentry Mode is supposed to protect the car from theft or vandalism, for example. This is done by taking images with 4 cameras on the outside of the car.When Sentry Mode was enabled, by default the cameras continuously filmed everything around a parked Tesla and kept 1 hour of footage each time. Due to software updates, the cameras are now off by default. And when the user does turn them on, they now store a maximum of 10 minutes of footage.'So a lot of Tesla's parked on the street often filmed everyone who came near the car, and also stored that footage for a very long time. If every car does that, you get a situation where you can't walk down the street anywhere freely anymore, without being spied upon. (machine translated)