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TESLA Germany

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Report: ‘massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints
Whistleblower files reveal customer and employee information plus complaints about driver assistance system

Guardian staff and agency
Fri 26 May 2023 23.08 BST

Tesla has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system, Germany’s Handelsblatt has reported, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower.

The Handelsblatt report said customer data could be found “in abundance” in a data set labelled “Tesla Files”.

The files include tables containing more than 100,000 names of former and current employees, including the social security number of the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, along with private email addresses, phone numbers, salaries of employees, bank details of customers and secret details from production, according to Handelsblatt.

The breach would violate the GDPR, the newspaper said.

The Guardian has not independently verified the documents.

The data protection office in Brandenburg, which is home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data leak as “massive”.

“I can’t remember such a scale,” the Brandenburg data protection officer, Dagmar Hartge, said.

If such a violation was proved, Tesla could be fined up to 4% of its annual sales, which could be €3.26bn ($3.5bn).

Citing the leaked files, the newspaper also reported about large numbers of customer complaints regarding the Tesla’s driver assistance programs, with about 4,000 complaints on sudden acceleration or phantom braking.

The German union IG Metall said the revelations were “disturbing” and called on Tesla to inform employees about all data protection violations and promote a culture in which staff could raise problems and grievances openly and without fear.

“These revelations ... fit with the picture that we have gained in just under two years,” said Dirk Schulze, IG Metall incoming district manager for Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony.

Handelsblatt quoted a lawyer for Tesla as saying a “disgruntled former employee” had abused their access as a service technician, adding that the company would take legal action against the individual it suspected of the leak.

The data protection watchdog for the Netherlands said on Friday it was aware of possible Tesla data protection breaches.



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Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink approved for in-human study
The Food and Drug Administration, which had initially rejected the application, finally gave the company the green light

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Fri 26 May 2023 02.40 BST

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-implant company, said on Thursday it had received a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to kickstart its first in-human clinical study, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.

Musk has predicted on at least four occasions since 2019 that his medical device company would begin human trials for a brain implant to treat severe conditions such as paralysis and blindness.

Yet the company, founded in 2016, only sought FDA approval in early 2022 – and the agency rejected the application, seven current and former employees told Reuters in March.

The FDA had pointed out several concerns to Neuralink that needed to be addressed before sanctioning human trials, according to the employees. Major issues involved the lithium battery of the device, the possibility of the implant’s wires migrating within the brain and the challenge of safely extracting the device without damaging brain tissue.

Thursday’s FDA approval comes as US lawmakers are urging regulators to investigate whether the makeup of a panel overseeing animal testing at Neuralink contributed to botched and rushed experiments.

Neuralink has already been the subject of federal investigations.



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Reminds me of these people who got their vision back from the use of ocular implants... that are no longer made by the company, the technology is obsolete, and are now breaking down and leaving people blind and the company wont replace them as there is no money in setting up a manufacturing line for "obsolete" gear.

I recently heard a rumour that they depended on external servers that the company is shutting down leaving the people blind even if they implants still work perfectly. Sorry about that, freedom of the market.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60416058
Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark

Published

17 February 2022

Hundreds of people who had retinal implants to improve their sight face an uncertain future as the technology they rely on is now obsolete.

Second Sight stopped making its Argus II bionic eyes several years ago to focus on a brain implant instead.

According to IEEE Spectrum, which broke the story, it is now hoping to merge with a biopharmaceutical firm which does not make eye implants.

Second Sight was contacted by the BBC but has not yet responded.

Enhancing lives

Adam Mendelsohn, chief executive of Nano Precision Medical, with which Second Sight is planning to merge, told the BBC it would consider the issues raised by IEEE once the merger, scheduled for mid-2022 - was completed.

"I do intend to make this one of our priorities if and when I assume my leadership position in the combined company," Mr Mendelsohn said.

According to Second Sight's website, its Argus II offers life-changing benefits for those with sight impairment, including "enjoying mobility and independence".

"Our mission is to develop neuro-stimulation technology to enhance the lives of blind individuals, while supporting our current users," it says.
Argus II device screen grabImage source, Second Sight

But IEEE Spectrum reports that Second Sight actually discontinued its retinal implants - which effectively take the place of photoreceptors in the eye to create a form of artificial vision - in 2019.

It says the firm nearly went out of business in 2020 and is now concentrating on a brain device - the Orion - which also provides artificial vision, while providing only limited support to the 350 or so who have the implants.
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"... promote a culture in which staff could raise problems and grievances openly and without fear."

Think that Tesla may need to work on that...

" ...quoted a lawyer for Tesla as saying a “disgruntled former employee” had abused their access as a service technician, adding that the company would take legal action against the individual it suspected of the leak."
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Azastan wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:07 am "... promote a culture in which staff could raise problems and grievances openly and without fear."

Think that Tesla may need to work on that...

" ...quoted a lawyer for Tesla as saying a “disgruntled former employee” had abused their access as a service technician, adding that the company would take legal action against the individual it suspected of the leak."
They need to step softly, German worker and privacy protection laws present some hurdles to overcome.
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RTH10260 wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:22 am

They need to step softly, German worker and privacy protection laws present some hurdles to overcome.
As if Elon Musk cares!
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Azastan wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 11:04 am
RTH10260 wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:22 am

They need to step softly, German worker and privacy protection laws present some hurdles to overcome.
As if Elon Musk cares!
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Heh. Something I find very telling from the piece:
Over the years, Musk has publicly outlined an ambitious plan for Neuralink. He made headlines late last year when he said he was already so confident in the device’s safety that he would be willing to implant them in his own children.
Confident enough to implant them in his kid's heads, but not his own.
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But, but, but… Covid vax micro chips!!!

Oh wait.
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Gift link: Texas welcomed Elon Musk. Now his rural neighbors aren’t so sure.

I'll never understand why anyone is a fanboy of Musk. I also don't get that he's a "genius."
BASTROP COUNTY, Tex. — Chap Ambrose has always been a fan of Elon Musk. He spent $100 to join the waiting list for Tesla’s first pickup in 2019 and bought internet service from Musk’s satellite provider.

But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.
Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.

“I just have no faith that the leadership there values the environment and these shared resources,” said Ambrose, who leads a group of local residents pushing Musk’s companies to slow down and address concerns about the environmental risks of the development. “I would say, I’m still a fan [of Elon], but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
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pipistrelle wrote: Mon May 29, 2023 9:52 am
"I would say, I’m still a fan [of Elon], but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
Ain't gonna happen, Ambrose. :fingerwag:
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Elon thinks you should be a good neighbor and STFU, Ambrose.
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It is both instructive and entertaining to watch Elon’s gushing, self-congratulatory YouTube about his humanoid robots… and then watch one on China’s.
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BASTROP COUNTY, Tex. — Chap Ambrose has always been a fan of Elon Musk. He spent $100 to join the waiting list for Tesla’s first pickup in 2019 and bought internet service from Musk’s satellite provider.

But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.

Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.

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Signs of Musk’s move-fast ethos have mounted in Bastrop County. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has hit the Musk building sites with several violations over poor erosion controls and other matters. Texas’s transportation department reprimanded Boring for building an unpermitted driveway that it said posed traffic-safety concerns, and Bastrop County issued a violation over unauthorized wastewater holding tanks.

“Regarding the Boring Company, we have been regularly hounded by their staff and consultants to expedite and approve permit applications that are incomplete and not in compliance” with regulations, the county’s then-director of engineering and development, Robert Pugh, wrote in an email to a colleague last summer.
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the RWNJ ought to be raising hell - a guy has business in and with China !!!
Twitter and Tesla’s interests at odds in Elon Musk’s quiet China visit
The world’s richest person lapsed into an unusual silence on social media during his trip to the electric carmaker’s second largest market

Alex Hern Technology editor
Thu 1 Jun 2023 17.31 BST

Followers of Elon Musk didn’t know what to expect from his trip to China. Would he speak about Tesla, a company with a large market and manufacturing footprint there? Or SpaceX, with its symbiotic relationship with the American state? Or even Twitter, the social network he bought because “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy”?

The one thing no one expected: silence.

Musk sent his last tweet late on Monday night. The uncharacteristic hiatus was broken only on Thursday morning when he returned to the US and wrote a post congratulating SpaceX for its achievements in human spaceflight.

Any other chief executive could have argued that their two days on the Chinese mainland were a non-stop parade of meetings, tours and dinners, leaving little time for posts on social media. But Musk, who has tweeted more or less every day since last June, is rarely lost for words.

Twitter, of course, is banned in China, although foreign visitors and net-savvy locals are frequently able to access it anyway using virtual private networks. But others were happy to speak on Musk’s behalf. On Weibo, the Chinese short-form social network that has flourished in Twitter’s absence, a state news outlet posted that his visit proved the folly of American policy to “decouple” from China, in comments translated by the Washington Post. “Even if the White House agrees with arguments for decoupling, the Musks [of the world] will not agree.”

While in China, the Tesla CEO met the country’s industry minister, Jin Zhuanglong, prompting a statement from the foreign ministry that Musk was hoping to expand the electric carmaker’s business in the country, which is its second biggest market. The ministry claimed that Musk had described the two countries’ economies as “conjoined twins”.

The visit has proved influential among the wider business community. On Thursday morning, it was reported that the chief executive of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, Bernard Arnault, was also drawing up plans to visit China for the first time since the Covid pandemic. Arnault and Musk have been jostling for position as the world’s richest person, with Musk this week overtaking the Frenchman as Tesla stock climbed and LMVH shares dropped.

The importance of China to Tesla has long sat uneasily with Musk’s investment in Twitter. Until he took over the social network, it had been known for taking an increasingly strong stance against efforts by the Chinese state to use the service for propaganda purposes abroad. News feeds such as that of the Xinhua agency were tagged as “state-owned media”, while the personal accounts of Chinese diplomats and civil servants, using the site under special dispensation, were marked as being “government officials”. Those labels were removed as part of Musk’s controversial overhaul of the platform’s verification process.



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in other news - SpaceX
SpaceX hires boy, 14, who became youngest graduate at California university
Kairan Quazi, the youngest graduate Santa Clara University’s history, will start at Starlink division in July

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Tue 13 Jun 2023 06.00 BST

Kairan Quazi is years away from legally being able to watch an R-rated movie at the theater by himself or buy a drink at the bar, but he’s about to get a college degree and start a job at SpaceX.

Other than that, the 14-year-old insists he’s had a fairly normal academic journey.

Quazi’s story has gone viral after California media outlets reported on his preparing to graduate from Santa Clara University on 17 June.

The Bay Area native will not only become the youngest graduate in the school’s 172-year history, but is also about to join a short list of people who have graduated from college in their childhoods.

Oldest.org, a culture and history website, maintains a list of 10 of the youngest ever college graduates. Quazi is about the same age as numbers six through nine on that list.

As the San Francisco television station KGO tells it, Quazi’s family first discovered his advanced intellect when he began speaking in full sentences at just two years old. He would listen to National Public Radio in kindergarten and talk to his teachers and classmates about the stories he would hear, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Then, in third grade (the UK equivalent of year four), Quazi took tests which showed his intelligence was in the 99.9th percentile of the general population, according to BrainGain Magazine.

Quazi felt unchallenged by his school work, and his teachers, his pediatrician and his parents concluded that “mainstream education wasn’t the right path” for his accelerated learning, he said to KGO.

He subsequently enrolled at Las Positas community college – where he also worked as a highly sought-after tutor – and transferred to Santa Clara to study computer science and engineering two years later, when he was 11.

As he switched schools, Quazi also earned an undergraduate internship involving generative artificial intelligence work at the research lab for the tech company Intel.




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But what about all the good things Sulla did?
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If it was anyone else, I'd wonder if it was trolling sarcasm, but that guy is eff'ed up.
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Slim Cognito wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 3:37 pm If it was anyone else, I'd wonder if it was trolling sarcasm, but that guy is eff'ed up.
This guy?
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Yeas, that guy, the frog-mouthed ass.
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If Elon Musk was a Bond Vilnian, it would be Elon Musk.
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"If"???

My fav two Bond villains ever are Elon Musk and Harlan Crow.
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:lol:
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