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Trust me bro. These systems will never be abused by those managing the system: surely they couldn't give themselves access privileges, surely they couldn't remove data access records, surely individuals in positions of power would never modify, remove or share data out of self-protection, including their buddies' (assets)...
You're all just a little confused, you see: these video-capable cameras currently only record snapshots of vehicle identifiers, that happen to be registered to individuals, and might depict its driver and persons surrounding the vehicle. And don't give me any of that future hocus pocus of "video footage"; that doesn't exist actually, it cannot simply be enabled with a single over-the-air update...
These cameras, among the many others might, or might not keep a record of everything you do outside your home, and stack it on top of data harvested by other data aggregators; but we promise we won't look at it. Why aren't you smiling? It's by contract: we'll monitor compliance of both our self and our partner with a mutual interest. And uuuhp, no deliberate loopholes that we actively exploit.