Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data in the Las Vegas explosion


McMahill updates the media at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas on Jan 2, 2025, regarding the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded at the Trump International Hotel. — Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP

NEW YORK: Your car is spying on you.

That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a difficult question as vehicles become less like cars and more like computers on wheels.

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