The documents also show that the American police are aware of corporate control over their ability to obtain data on the location of the vehicle, expressing fears that they could decide to kill specific possibilities at any time.
In a letter sent in April 2024 to the Federal Trade Committee, Senators Ron Przedn and Edward Markey – Democrats from Oregon and Massachusetts, respectively The range of car manufacturersFrom Toyota, Nissan and Subaru, among other things, they are ready to reveal the location of the government to the government in response to a call without a court order. Meanwhile, Volkswagen had its own rules, limiting calls to data worth less than seven days. Senators noticed that these policies constituted, unlike public promises previously submitted by some car manufacturers to require an order or court order before submitting data on customer location.
Automaks “significantly differ in an important issue of whether customers are ever said that they were spyed,” Senators wrote. They said that at the time of the letter Tesla only had a policy about informing clients about legal demands. “Other car companies do not tell their clients about government demands regarding their data, even if they can do it.”
“We respect the privacy of our clients and we take our responsibility for serious protection of our personal data,” says Bennet Ladyman, spokesman for T-Mobile.
AT & t spokesman, Jim Kimberly, says: “Like all companies, we are obliged to provide information to law enforcement agencies and other governmental entities by observing court orders, calls to the standard of notifications about slow government information or other legal demands, except for rescue people. Tower searching we require a probable order to search the cause or court order, except for the emergency.”
Verizon did not answer the request for comment.
“Especially now, when American civil liberties quickly erod, people should be very careful in granting new law enforcement authorities,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of the ownership of the people, Non -profit organization, which obtained the documents of the CHP presentation.
Jay Stanley, a senior politician at the American Civil Liberties Union, notes that police documents reviewed by Wired contained significant detailed information about the supervision of the car, which seem publicly inaccessible, which suggests that corporations are much more open to law enforcement agencies than with their own clients.
“It is a constant scandal that this type of surveillance takes place without the fact that people are not aware of it, let alone allow it,” says Stanley. “If they carry out surveillance in public, society should know. They should have significant knowledge and experience significant consent before any surveillance is activated, which is apparently not the case.”