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To former Tesla owners [1]

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Date: 2025-01-04

I have never owned one of these, mainly because I’ve thought for many years now that Musk was a fraud and a self-promoting douchebag, a conman that fooled some people into thinking he was smarter than he actually is. Could never get myself to support him. However, something we’ve seen after the attack on the Trump hotel left many wondering, as this AP article discusses.

Is your car spying on you?

Do car companies have to listen to you, like the social media companies do, when you ask them for all your data to be sent over, and for it to be deleted? What happens after you sell a Tesla?

I can see that they may need to keep these metrics on their servers while you have a car, but once you sell the car, they no longer have a reason to keep your personal data, your phone sync data, your contacts, biometrics and so on.

So if you owned a Tesla and sold it, can you request all your personal data be sent over to you and deleted off their servers? Or does owning a Tesla mean forever gifting your personal data to Elon Musk? Does he own your personal data because at some point you owned his car?

Has anyone tried this so far? Has anyone, as a former owner, requested their data from Tesla, and then asked for it to be deleted permanently?

I have a feeling Musk would be hoarding that data, and would not pay any heed to what people want. If for nothing else but for future AI training.

I smell a class action lawsuit here.

However, as stated, I’ve never owned a Tesla, so all I can do is ask questions and see if others have done this. I’d love to hear some feedback from others that have experience dealing with this, and to learn how it went for them.

Cheers!

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