Waymo: ‘no plans’ to use in-car camera data for targeted ads

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo has “no plans” to use footage from cameras inside its robotaxis to train AI models for targeted ads, spokesperson Julia Ilina said in an email to The Verge. Ilina was responding to an unreleased page from Waymo’s privacy policy that appears to offer customers the ability to opt-out from having their “personal information,” including “interior camera data associated with rider’s identity,” to train generative AI models for a variety of purposes, including advertisements. The snippet from the privacy policy was discovered by security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who previously found Waymo’s plans for a tipping feature. The screenshot posted by Wong was from an unreleased app page that “contains placeholder text that doesn’t accurately reflect the feature’s purpose,” Ilina cautioned. “The feature, which is ... Read full article.