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With the advent of the intelligent age, a lot of people's privacy is being recorded quietly. This also includes Tesla, the world's largest electric car company by sales, who publicly admitted to monitoring car owners through in-car cameras. In response to this situation, Tesla CEO Musk again responded that he would not provide the data to the US government.

Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, once again mentioned the issue of Tesla's installation of monitoring when he attended the China Development Forum via the Internet. Musk said Tesla will not provide data collected by its vehicles in China or other countries to the US government.

Mr Musk believes that no US or Chinese company would risk collecting sensitive or private data and sharing it with its own government. Whether in China or the United States, if a commercial company does engage in espionage, the negative impact on the company will be extremely bad. If Tesla uses cars to engage in espionage in any country, then it will be shut down anywhere.

The explanation stems from the fact that Tesla CEO Musk said on Twitter that he would withdraw the trial rights of some car owners' FSD beta version (fully self-driving public test version). The reason is that these car owners do not pay enough attention to the road conditions when using the FSD beta function.

In response to the situation, some netizens interacted with Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) on Twitter: "how does Tesla know the behavior of the car owner? is the camera in the car pointing at the driver?"

In response, Musk replied to a netizen, "Yes." As a result, Musk's remarks quickly triggered a discussion about whether Tesla infringed upon the privacy of car owners.

In response to this situation, Tesla China also explained on March 19 that all Tesla user vehicles in the Chinese market did not turn on the in-car camera and did not involve the FSD Beta (fully self-driving test version) test.

Tesla also said that Tesla's privacy protection policy abides by national laws and regulations. The company attaches great importance to the protection of user privacy, equipped with the world's leading level of network security system to ensure the protection of user privacy.

Although Musk has repeatedly stressed that if Tesla carries out espionage, it will have a huge negative impact, and the consequences will also be very serious. However, there is still a lot of controversy over Tesla's clarification on the Internet. after all, the current situation between China and the United States is still relatively tense.

Some netizens believe that whether Tesla can withstand the persecution of the US government is a problem, and companies such as Google, Tutuo and Yahoo have all leaked user information before. Although Tesla China statement said that the camera is not currently turned on in China, it does not mean that it will not be in the future, or maybe Tesla turned on the camera after the invasion.

For this reason, according to Bloomberg, Tesla has been banned from becoming Chinese military equipment, and even Tesla has been banned from entering areas where people in sensitive industries or state organs live. Sources say China is worried that some content will be recorded and transmitted to the United States by Tesla.

Although Tesla's statement pointed out that none of the vehicles in the Chinese market turned on the in-car cameras, Tesla was also equipped with the world's leading cyber security system to ensure user privacy. These two points fundamentally conflict with each other. In the past few years, Tesla has encountered the problem of low-level errors such as the expiration of https certificates, which makes the vehicle system abnormal. This is a mistake made by a new IT operator. On the other hand, a hacker is called a hacker because he can break through the security firewall through technical means and gain control over the network and vehicles. The world's leading network security system refers to the definition before it is invaded. Once the intrusive information has been leaked, there is no opportunity to remedy it. Tesla pointed out that whether the camera is not turned on, its network security level is the highest or high, which cannot fundamentally eliminate this serious question of information security. In the eyes of the automotive industry, Tesla's only way to reassure the outside world is to give up video and environmental audio collection and remove the relevant hardware.

With the development of intelligent vehicles, monitoring can real-time monitor the status of drivers in the process of driving, supervise drivers' standard operating behavior, fatigue driving, traffic calls and other unsafe driving behavior, and guard against violations by car owners. However, from the perspective of car safety, it may be necessary to install camera monitoring on automotive products, and how to strike a balance between security and privacy is also an issue that major car companies should consider.

In fact, for enterprises, insisting on maintaining and protecting customers' privacy can effectively promote the healthy development of the company in all major parts of the world, but it depends on the development of enterprises without the support of the government, and Tesla, as an American car company, whether to resist the green slope of the US government is what customers are worried about.

When Musk was asked about his advice to the two governments in the face of the current pressure on Sino-US relations, Musk said: "China and the United States should have more trust or believe that each other is well-intentioned, which should be able to create a better future."

At present, the Chinese market is crucial to Tesla. After all, China has become Tesla's largest market after the United States, accounting for about 1/4 of the company's global sales by 2020. Data show that in 2020, Tesla delivered nearly 500000 vehicles worldwide, while more than 130000 vehicles were sold in the Chinese market.

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