The recent Strava story is about the inadvertent exposure of user data from apps that are capturing your location information. What I’ve discovered on the Tesla app is one feature that users may object to due to a somewhat similar exposure of owners’ names and locations.On the Tesla smartphone app, if you go to the Loot Box, there is a Leaderboard showing the owner’s first name (with additional numbers as a suffix) indicating the ranking of the owner in the referral contest. There are four geographical tabs at the Owner, Local, Country, and World level. At the Owner level, the Tesla app shows your neighborhood map and then lists the names (referral code using first name or family name) of other Tesla owners in your neighborhood radius and your referral ranking relative to those other Tesla owners. First of all, the encoding for the referral code should not use identifiable names of the owners and secondly, Tesla should not show who’s in your neighborhood vicinity unless they opt in. What are your thoughts? Does Tesla need to remedy these two issues? Is there an issue of PII here?
The recent Strava story is about the inadvertent exposure of user data from apps that are capturing your location information. What I’ve discovered on the Tesla app is one feature that users may object to due to a somewhat similar exposure of owners’ names and locations.
On the Tesla smartphone app, if you go to the Loot Box, there is a Leaderboard showing the owner’s first name (with additional numbers as a suffix) indicating the ranking of the owner in the referral contest. There are four geographical tabs at the Owner, Local, Country, and World level. At the Owner level, the Tesla app shows your neighborhood map and then lists the names (referral code using first name or family name) of other Tesla owners in your neighborhood radius and your referral ranking relative to those other Tesla owners. First of all, the encoding for the referral code should not use identifiable names of the owners and secondly, Tesla should not show who’s in your neighborhood vicinity unless they opt in. What are your thoughts? Does Tesla need to remedy these two issues? Is there an issue of PII here?
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