Posted on 09/09/2023 11:29:46 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Even things like the consumer’s “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” are tracked, shared, and sold.
Vehicle manufacturers are now tracking and storing some very personal data inside the car’s internal computers, including things like if you have sex inside the car and even your unique genetics.
As highlighted by popular YouTuber Louis Rossman, a staunch right-to-repair advocate, highlighted how vehicles are becoming more and more invasive in what they are collecting on drivers and passengers.
(snip)
Mozilla did not mince words when giving their judgment on Nissan’s privacy policy. The group wrote:
We’re not going to mince words here: THEY STINK AT PRIVACY! They are probably the worst car company we reviewed and that says something because all car companies are really bad at privacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at winepressnews.com ...
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men”.
Whether it is private or public actors anyone who invades your privacy is your enemy.
Who made that quote? It’s kinda backward. Savages have more privacy because they are mostly alone. As soon as people start clustering privacy goes away. Civilization is trading privacy for the security and wealth of grouping up. Only people who live like Jeremiah Johnson have privacy. Everybody else gets to pretend.
So the real question here is, How do they collect this data?
Is it only when you download so app from the mfg to the computer screen in the car?
If so, then don’t download their junk.
If they collect the data via various sensors in the car, then where are they so we can disable them.
With out this info, this story is meaningless.
I'm a big fan of the word "predilections."
Just sounds so dirty.
Best post of the day/week/????:
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men”.
Whether it is private or public actors anyone who invades your privacy is your enemy.
Ayn Rand, "The Soul of an Individualist", For the New Intellectual
Probably blutooth from your phone. Your phone knows all, and everything it talks to knows all.
Ah, well that explains it. Rand was always good for massive declarations that aren’t that accurate.
Thanks
There’s gonna be a meter on your bed....
From the song “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
You can’t disable the sensors or the collection and still have an operating vehicle.
Headlines! Headlines!
Car Makers Torpedo Submarine Races!
More at 11 or 12...maybe...
Yup. Once Thrag and Gok decided being in the same cave meant one could gather fire wood while the other hunted something to cook on that fire privacy went away. There was a time in history when we moved to stone buildings that were frequently single family dwellings it looked like we were increasing privacy. Unless your wife was in the sewing circle or garden club, then you knew that was an illusion. Through most of history only the very rich have had privacy... unless you count the butlers.
Right. I used Bluetooth on my phone to play a song. Next thing I knew....all the phone numbers of my contacts were on the cars computer screen. If that info gets to be picked up by some sensor... it is now not private. Plus if someone steals your car, they can get a whole list of your friends and phone number...
But it’s all so convenient. Now you can tell your car to tell your phone to call your wife, all hands free using the car’s audio system. Nobody bothers to think about the other side of it. Pre-pandemic there was a big stink because people realized rental cars get “paired” with lots of phones and actually can “share it”. Because in family cars that’s a good thing (sort of) and car makers don’t 2 versions. But of course they all acted like it was the rental companies’ fault. Like they told everybody to pair their phones.
That’s right. There are tons of ways for people to get info about us while we use the “personal” computers. A true oxymoron. I don’t know how yet, but I would love to use an obscure OS on my phone or home computers. And have a complete “spoof” computer...I can certainly use one computer for net traffic and one for personal stuff.
Freegards.
Johnny: Wake up, sucker, this is the phone company we're talking about! They see everything, they know everything, they got their own covert police force! I'm probably wired for sound right now! I gotta get out of here!
Venus: Johnny!
Johnny: Don't use my name!!
The Future, where all your drug induced paranoid fantasies come true!
Does this mean that when “road head” is detected, that there will be a flavored condom advertisement on the automotive touch screen each time the car starts up? Or maybe each time someone of the right body weight is in the passenger seat? Or maybe on one’s smart phone?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.