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Use it in a manner that SpaceX disagrees with and you can expect lawyers.

This is probably true, but it's hard to be certain that they'd prevail. Has this actually been tested in court?

We now have explicit, written authorization from the head of WhatsApp to reverse engineer ("tear through") the binaries. The ToS only prohibits unauthorized reverse engineering. I agree with you that it was disallowed prior to this comment, but I think it's OK now.

Interim Housing 7 years ago

especially career twitter archaeologists who dig up old tweets and put them out of context

Richard Stallman doesn't tweet. What are you talking about?

The Draeger breathalyzer fiasco in Washington State was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Draeger has consistently resisted attempts to make its source code public. Will you commit to publicly releasing the source code to your "cannalyzer" device firmware?

It’s no different to software providing both free and premium versions in the same binary. What are you paying for? Not the number of bytes.. the R&D hours behind it.

I think the reason people tolerate this arrangement with software is that they are not actually buying ownership of the IP that this R&D capitalizes; they're buying a license to use that IP.

Here, they're purchasing ownership of an actual car. Tesla is actively denying them full use of something that they own.

My experience contradicts the article's claims. I don't remember ever turning this on, and when I first learned about Location History (years ago), it was already populated with a significant amount of my location history data. Maybe I did technically agree to it in some piece of fine print or other text I didn't notice, but I contest the idea that legitimate, unambiguous user consent was obtained in all cases.

This sounds like a "legitimate interest"[1] and/or "legal obligation"[2], which is a lawful basis for processing personal data under the GDPR, even without explicit consent. Explicit consent only enters into the picture when no other lawful basis for processing personal data exists. You can find a full list of lawful bases at [3].

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

[2] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

[3] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...