Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns
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The Facebook post may make Waymo passengers wonder what triggers a police intervention, says Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics program at Santa Clara University. She has used Waymo's driverless taxis and says ethically, the privacy issues surrounding them sit in a gray area. "There's something about being in a car without another person that makes you think it's private."

"With all these recording devices, we don't see them, [and] they're not these obvious things being stuck in our faces," Raicu adds.

That brings up a key issue: informed consent, Acquisti says.

"It is not clear the extent to which passengers ... are reminded that when they step into the car, that they are being monitored, and most likely they are not told in its entirety how the data will be used," he says.

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