Ethical hacker discusses tradeoffs of car tracking technology [Video]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Las Vegas law enforcement praised the information Tesla quickly provided about the Cybertruck filled with firework-style mortars outside of the Trump Hotel on New Years Day.

The suspected driver of the Cybertruck, 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, was killed in the blast.

Tesla mapped out the route taken from Denver to Las Vegas using data collected from the Cybertruck as it stopped at charging stations.

“The police [press conference] came out Friday, and they seemed to corroborate a lot of things that are in the privacy policy for Tesla, as far as what they’re able to track and not track,” Rodney Gullatte Jr., a certified ethical hacker who sits on the board of the National Cybersecurity Center, said. “If you end up going to a Supercharger station in your Tesla, that information gets sent to Tesla. If you go to any other kind of charging station, that information does not get sent diagnostically to Tesla. And that diagnostic information doesn’t …