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from the smile-you-are-on-Candid-Camera dept.
Why install them if they don't plan to use them ? Doesn't pass the smell test.
Fusion site passes on the news that Hertz is putting cameras inside its rental cars as part of its "NeverLost" navigational system:
Hertz has offered the NeverLost navigational device for years, but it only added the built-in camera feature (which includes audio and video) to its latest version of the device -- NeverLost 6 -- in mid-2014. "Approximately a quarter of our vehicles across the country have a NeverLost unit and slightly more than half of those vehicles have the NeverLost 6 model installed,” Hertz spokesperson Evelin Imperatrice said by email. In other words, one in 8 Hertz cars has a camera inside -- but Imperatrice says that, for now, they are inactive. "We do not have adequate bandwidth capabilities to the car to support streaming video at this time," she said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @06:52AM
> They say 'we won't turn on the cams' but they can turn on only the mics, they didn't say that.
I hate to say it. But that was exactly what I thought too.
As in they would turn on the mics and pipe all conversation to a data-mining service that would also be primed with your personally identifiable information gleaned from the rental application. It might even get so far out of hand that they would sell access to people's conversations, so google could pay hertz to listen in on facebook employees in one of these vehicles. All of which you agreed to in the fine print on the 20 pages of the rental agreement.