ELON MUSK FORCED TO ADMIT THAT TESLA CARS SPY ON YOU AS BAD AS THE NSA

Tesla boss Elon Musk strongly verified that his cars gather large amounts of data on the occupants uich are used to spy on you.

The Chinese government to bar members of its military or employees of some state-owned companies from using Teslas.

Chinese authorities are concerned that data gathered by Tesla vehicles, such as images taken by the cars' cameras, could be transmitted to the US, the Journal said.

Tesla did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.

China is a crucially important market for Tesla, which has a factory in Shanghai and is already selling one-fourth of its production in that country. The group hopes to sell 200,000 vehicles in China this year.

In his remarks, Musk insisted that no American or Chinese company would take the risk of collecting private data and sharing it with their government....but many know that to be untrue.

If Tesla used its automobiles to spy in any country, he said, it would be shut down everywhere, providing "a very strong incentive for us to be very confidential."

Most rational people fear that data gathered by groups like Tesla could pose a threat to national security.

Last week, American authorities classified the Huawei group and four other Chinese telecommunications equipment makers as threats to US national security, undercutting any hopes that the US, under President Joe Biden, might ease tense bilateral relations.

Huawei had been blacklisted in 2019 by the Trump administration, which accused it without providing evidence of potentially spying for Beijing by using its equipment to monitor communications and data traffic in other countries.