Tesla AI a bit too scary for the Chinese leadership.
Tesla cars are banned from Chinese town over spying fear
Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying.electrek.co
Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying amid a meeting of the country’s leadership.
For the most part, Tesla and the Chinese government are believed to have a good relationship.
The two came to a deal that resulted in Tesla being the first foreign automaker to fully owned a car factory in China without having to have a joint venture with a state-owned company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also been known to praise the Chinese people and has refrained from criticizing the Chinese government.
Nonetheless, the Chinese government has indicated clear concerns that Tesla vehicles could be involved in spying activities in its country.
Last year, the People’s Liberation Army, China’s military, issued a notice banning Tesla owners from parking their vehicles on bases and in housing complexes.
The concerns appeared to be related to Tesla’s use of cameras all around its vehicles and where the data is going.
Musk even commented on the story by stating the obvious: “Tesla is not using its vehicles’ cameras to spy on China,” but it didn’t seem to alleviate the concerns as even more government entities reportedly told employees not to park their Tesla vehicles on government property.
Following those situations, Tesla later announced that it will store all data collected in China locally.
A few months later, Tesla announced a new data center in the country in order to do just that, but it didn’t seem to alleviate all concerns.
Today, the local traffic authorities in Beidaihe announced that all Tesla cars are going to be banned from its roads for at least two months:
Beidaihe is a resort town not too far from Beijing, and it has been known to host meetings of the Chinese leadership in the summer.
While the authorities didn’t comment on the reason behind the ban, the assumption is that they don’t want the cameras on Tesla vehicles to catch anything related to the meeting.
Keyword listening. You're right, smart devices are spying on you. So when Google refused to put Chinese users' data inside China, the Chinese government told them to go home. Apple, with its data center in Guizhou, is very cooperative.
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Hello again Fake White Paint!Tesla AI a bit too scary for the Chinese leadership.
Tesla cars are banned from Chinese town over spying fear
Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying.
Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying amid a meeting of the country’s leadership.
For the most part, Tesla and the Chinese government are believed to have a good relationship.
The two came to a deal that resulted in Tesla being the first foreign automaker to fully owned a car factory in China without having to have a joint venture with a state-owned company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also been known to praise the Chinese people and has refrained from criticizing the Chinese government.
Nonetheless, the Chinese government has indicated clear concerns that Tesla vehicles could be involved in spying activities in its country.
Last year, the People’s Liberation Army, China’s military, issued a notice banning Tesla owners from parking their vehicles on bases and in housing complexes.
The concerns appeared to be related to Tesla’s use of cameras all around its vehicles and where the data is going.
Musk even commented on the story by stating the obvious: “Tesla is not using its vehicles’ cameras to spy on China,” but it didn’t seem to alleviate the concerns as even more government entities reportedly told employees not to park their Tesla vehicles on government property.
Following those situations, Tesla later announced that it will store all data collected in China locally.
A few months later, Tesla announced a new data center in the country in order to do just that, but it didn’t seem to alleviate all concerns.
Today, the local traffic authorities in Beidaihe announced that all Tesla cars are going to be banned from its roads for at least two months:
Beidaihe is a resort town not too far from Beijing, and it has been known to host meetings of the Chinese leadership in the summer.
While the authorities didn’t comment on the reason behind the ban, the assumption is that they don’t want the cameras on Tesla vehicles to catch anything related to the meeting.
Hello again Fake White Paint!
No, they are simply not rabidly crying and whining like Huwaei that it would be impossible for them to access camera data. They take a realistic approach to Government concerns of possible abuse not a "playing stupid" one.
Tesla knows there could be a potential security issue with camera data and simply said the data is stored locally in China and that is as much as they can do to help alleviate concerns short of shipping cars without cameras.
BTW Elon Musk said their future FSD system will run without an internet connection so the solution is going to be solved anyway since the car wont be transmitting any data at all anywhere. So once the transmitter is removed China will have no worries.
Tesla FSD, Autopilot to Work Even Without Internet Connection? Elon Musk Says It's a Must
Tesla FSD and Autopilot should work without a steady internet connection, and that says a lot coming from Elon Musk.
This of course will not be possible with LIDAR based systems which need to grab mapping data of areas it is entering using a live connection.
Numerous countries will bring up National Security issues with the cameras used by Chinese cars pointing to the current Chinese Government actions and how they feel it is a legitimate concern.
Now remember Elon Musk has his reasons for why he is doing things..while the short-sighted Chinese EV companies are completely oblivious to the hazards of their full self driving strategy lurking on the horizon.
The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including Microsoft in 2007, Yahoo! in 2008, Google in 2009, Facebook in 2009, Paltalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, AOL in 2011, Skype in 2011 and Apple in 2012.[22] The speaker's notes in the briefing document reviewed by The Washington Post indicated that "98 percent of PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft".[1]
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