Most major car manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information — though they are vague on the buyers, a new study finds, and half say they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
The proliferation of sensors in automobiles — from telematics to fully digitized control consoles — has made them prodigious data-collection hubs.
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey. Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
“Maybe we sell it, maybe we don’t. Why do you care it’s all out there anyhow….”
Yeah. We don’t have privacy because assholes like these own politicians and it’s big business. Does mean I don’t want it.
Spokesman Brian Weiss said that for safety reasons the group “has concerns” about letting customers completely opt out.
God, what ass holes.
My god the future is lame as fuck.
Atleast something cool was happening in, say, the 40’s to make it interesting.
Change your cities to be human centric instead of car centric. Build bicycle lanes, Changr building zoning in suburbs so that small shops and restaurants are sprinkled thought. Invest heavily in public transportation
Now we mostly no longer need cars. We’re healthier because we move more, we’re healthier because the air is cleaner, cities are safer and prettier, quieter, everything gets better.
Will there be FOSS alternatives for car software at some point lol
The article mentions 19 car manufacturers, what 19?
Edit: found them https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
Conspiracy to manipulate securities that they aren’t listed in the article to begin with, I’m sure. Corporate media at work. It’s just billionaire stock holders and hedge funds back and back, and around again.
I think the newest car is even consider is 2008. Once they started putting telemetry in our cars it was inevitable that they’ll collect every possible datapoint to sell.
I don’t get the need for any of the new features anyways. My 2004 escape does everything I need it to with absolutely no fancy electronics. The cruise control still moves the throttle pedal ffs. The stereo is a $75 dumb radio and everything else is analog.
My next daily driver will probably be whatever I can find that’s older and fun to drive. Some of the new cars look great, especially the EVs, but I’m not willing to let them have that much data about me
How’s this interact with ccpa?
We just need to learn where the data is stored, then figure out how to wipe it.
I don’t know if that’ll help. Most cars are internet-connected nowadays. They can just stream the data back home.
Most cars are internet-connected nowadays
So there’s a sim card somewhere. Find it, remove it.
Yeah, there will be YouTube videos showing how to remove/dismantle.
Doh !!! Ima gunna hold their beeer while they re doing this shit
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Law enforcement thing doesn’t bother me. If I’m out driving around, I assume I will be tracked some way or another. Especially since I carry a smart phone with me. I have satellite connectivity to be able to lock/unlock, remote start, disable, and track the location of my car. I fully expect the telemetry to be easily accessible by Big Gubmint.
I definitely do not consent to the resale of my information to random third parties. That bit needs to be stopped.
I would hope any company I’m a customer of would at least require a warrant to release my data to law enforcement. I know I’d be disappointed in most companies, but I feel if I’m paying them, they shouldn’t concede until they are at least be required to release my data.
EDIT: a word
Sadly the law is not on our side there.
They reported that they don’t even need a warrant, they just need to ask
And why would they? It’s not your data anymore, silly!
