Wait until people find out what their phones are tracking.
urbanwildboar on
I’ve been saying it for a long time: avoid like the plague anything which has “smart” or “connected” in its name (yeah, that includes smartphones).
Wartickler on
you can disable all of it if you’ve half a mind to do some digging. look up your vehicle and how to disable all of that junk
Bokbreath on
Opportunity here for car reviewers to include whether a particular model maintains a network connection and if so, what it transmits. Pretty soon find out if people care.
Neutral-President on
Weight‽
Surely that must fall under unauthorized collection/disclosure of health information.
Psychprojection on
So is your grocery store, and YouTube, and your telco, and isp, and credit cards.
BadUncleBernie on
My 1995 GMC Safari is like my dog.
Stupid and loyal.
PoopMousePoopMan on
Can u opt to not have a gps computer car? Like are there any cars on the market that are old school?
mooseneck on
“[T]he worst privacy violators are Tesla, Nissan, and Hyundai.”
Perhaps a good time to encourage legislators to look more closely at consumer privacy and protection, especially with regard unscrupulous actors tech industry like Tesla (e.g., smartphones, online, car companies, subscriptions versus the option to own creative tools in perpetuity, etc.).
The rights of the common American are getting routinely trampled. The status quo need not be so bleak.
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[https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/)
Wait until people find out what their phones are tracking.
I’ve been saying it for a long time: avoid like the plague anything which has “smart” or “connected” in its name (yeah, that includes smartphones).
you can disable all of it if you’ve half a mind to do some digging. look up your vehicle and how to disable all of that junk
Opportunity here for car reviewers to include whether a particular model maintains a network connection and if so, what it transmits. Pretty soon find out if people care.
Weight‽
Surely that must fall under unauthorized collection/disclosure of health information.
So is your grocery store, and YouTube, and your telco, and isp, and credit cards.
My 1995 GMC Safari is like my dog.
Stupid and loyal.
Can u opt to not have a gps computer car? Like are there any cars on the market that are old school?
“[T]he worst privacy violators are Tesla, Nissan, and Hyundai.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangeles/news/new-study-finds-that-automakers-collect-too-much-personal-information-about-drivers/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
Perhaps a good time to encourage legislators to look more closely at consumer privacy and protection, especially with regard unscrupulous actors tech industry like Tesla (e.g., smartphones, online, car companies, subscriptions versus the option to own creative tools in perpetuity, etc.).
The rights of the common American are getting routinely trampled. The status quo need not be so bleak.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/15/23andme-hack-data-genetic-data-selling-response
https://gizmodo.com/23andme-admits-mining-your-dna-data-is-its-last-hope-1851252582