How exactly is it irrational to believe that computer controlled vehicles are subject to the same risk? It actually sounds to me like complete irrationality to believe they wouldn't be.
I find it irrational in that it provides little or no marginal risk. The ship of 'constant tracking of my location' has sailed many years ago - and there are far more convenient methods for the government to get such data than via self driving cars.
Also the cars tracking data is less likely to be personally associated with you than your phone data.
Also almost every new car has GPS that constantly tracks and reports your location, the self-driving AI is unrelated to that concern.
Position level data, at least so far, isn't constant and perfect. Big data does make a lot of guesses. Route information would be a step beyond what's there today.
Your phone has a far more detailed log of your movements than your car would have. Also self driving AI don't have to report their location or store their history (they probably will, but it isn't a design requirement).
Self drive AI will never stay isolated. It'll connect into local and national data services that track road conditions, accidents and current maps, it'll need constant communication for updates on conditions with immediate impact on the roads. It'll connect, all most immediately, into traffic control webs that specify red lights and government routing decisions.
If you've bought or driven a car in the past 5-10 years - all of that is already available. OnStar has been around since 1996.
Fair enough, but not everyone has OnStar nor is it criminal to disable it. Whereas, the idea here would lead to prohibiting direct drivers over time.
In any event though, I think we ought to be pushing back on use of personal data generally.
Ah - so you are thinking the 'remotely hack into the system'. The authentication system that needs to be cracked to do so is going to be beyond most nation states.
And how will long will it stay there? Honestly, you seem awfully confident given the history of the uncrackable becoming crackable with more advanced technology.
That's assuming that they don't include deliberate backdoors, which we know they will, you cited a few yourself, emergency overrides and I'm sure police controls. Are you 100% confident that the passwords to a police override won't be a hack vector? Perfect encryption is only as perfect as the weakest human link.
See above. There is a good chance your car already tracks your every movement - no AI needed. Your phone definitely does so already. The self-driving AI doesn't make any of this worse.
I don't always carry my phone. I frequently have location services off when I do (not that that does any good).
That would be far harder than what could be currently done - steal your car, run a red light that gets a photo of your license plate.
Or renting a car that looks like your own, and forging license plates, etc. Framing using a self-driving car will actually be more difficult. Especially if you have a phone that is tracking you at the same time.
Neither of which actually works when your car is reporting its location as in your driveway.
Actually you've misread what happened. A third party had a facebook app. That app harvested more data than is allowed by the facebook TOS. The owner of the app then further violated the TOS to pass that data to Cambridge Analytics.
FaceBook had pretty lax security with their App developers. Of course it's also come out that they let the Obama campaign harvest information as well (with their knowledge).
By the way I didn't misread anything. Nothing about what you said contradicts what I said.
Regarding privacy settings - I suspect that facebooks privacy settings probably did prevent info being harvested for those who had it setup. Most people don't have their privacy settings such that that would be prevented.
Pretty sure that FB was already under a cease and desist based on failing to limit data sharing to the sharing allowed under a users privacy setting. And pretty sure that they are under a new investigation for failing to meet the requirements of that order.
Web scrapping, is yet another practice where our government has failed to keep pace with technology.
If you guys really want to argue that you should have no privacy, please feel free.