Big brother Elon isn't watching you -- but maybe he should be!

In an effort to reassure privacy advocates, Tesla announced that its new automobile insurance product for owners of the company’s popular electric vehicles will not use onboard sensor data from said vehicles in determining policy premiums. The fear was that the company would use the voluminous data collected by every Tesla Model 3, S or X to pre-judge the risk associated with specific drivers and penalize those who've demonstrated a propensity for speeding or other aggressive behavior. Most news outlets are reporting this as a win for consumers, another bit of pushback against our intrusive, surveillance-state of a world. But… [Continue Reading]