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A sign of the times: nobody is questioning the privacy issue of Tesla tracking individual usage history. Are they tracking usage by correlating GPS in the car to charger locations or does the car charger interface transmit a serial number back to the charger?

Is there reason to believe Tesla doesn't maintain long-term records of every vehicle's entire GPS-enabled driving history?

Automated-everything sounds great until something nefarious happens, but by then it's too late to put the convenience genie back in the bottle.



Well, it has to make sure that the person/car using the supercharger has actually paid for the privilege... which means it has to identify you somehow. The fact that it keeps a record of this data is no more surprising to me than a store keeping electronic copies of my receipts.




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