Posted on 03/19/2021 8:08:32 AM PDT by george76
The Ulysses Group says it has real-time access to 15 billion cars worldwide..
They monitor cars through GPS and sensors on equipment such as airbags..
The data may be from car makers and through manufacturers of individual parts..
The Ulysses Group has strong ties to the U.S. military and promotes its capability..
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A South Carolina-based surveillance firm that has sold services to the U.S. military is promoting its ability to provide real-time location information about 15 billion cars every month.
The company, called The Ulysses Group, says it can monitor vehicles in every country in the world, except North Korea and Cuba.
The claims come from a document obtained by the office of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) in which the company has detailed its capabilities. Wyden is investigating companies that sell the data of consumers.
The company says it can track cars through sensors in vehicle parts - either installed by the car company, or by the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) - the company that provided the components.
The sensors collect information such as airbag and seatbelt status, engine temperature, and location, and then transmit that information either back to the car maker or to third parties.
Aggregator companies also purchase or obtain this data, repackage it, and then sell that data or products based on it to their own clients, Vice News reported on Wednesday.
Clients could include insurance companies, anti-terrorism agencies and the military
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The amount of people who have access to the highly personalized data may surprise many car owners.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If you’re carrying a cell phone, you are being tracked regardless the car you are driving.
15 billion cars? That would be more than 2 MODERN cars for every person on earth.
If only there were a way to navigate without being tracked. Maybe some kind of drawings on paper showing the route?
Do they make voting machines too?
Big fin ‘58 Plymouth, right?
Some buddies and I did a tour of the Eastern US in a ‘57 Plymouth after graduation from high school. With its modern push button transmission and big fins, it performed reasonably well, but the brakes did give out in the Smoky Mountains, which made for a very exciting ride into Asheville.
We did a lot of sleeping and eating in that machine and pretty well exhausted its useful life. :D
Very cool...I can find out where my ex is all the time!
“Not my car, it’s a dumb car that doesn’t spy on me or rat me out.”
If it has a license plate, it’s smarter than you think - due to cameras entering your movements into databases.
I’d love to see them try with mine, LOL. Sometimes it pays to be poor and drive junk.
Simply put a more efficient engine in it.
Only thru your personal electronic devices.
“Read a little while ago that a Tesla cannot be driven without permission from the cloud. If you’re out of cellphone range the thing is a brick.”
Read a little while ago that not everything you read on the internet is true.
Already done with your sewage and utilities usage and bill.
Urban camera systems that further use image recognition.
Never use Zoom for anything! Hacked all over the place!
Avoid populous areas.
That is definitely NOT true. There are many highways in the mountains where there is no signal whatever (not even radio) that Teslas etc. drive through regularly.
Love the tail fins.
Tesla’s “cloud” may actually be his 14,000+ satellite system being launched into space as we speak. Coverage for the entire planet and most, if not all, locations.
“Lying ... unless you subscribe to a ‘service’ the cellphone companies ain’t going to let you send data thru their networks for free ...”
Depends on who’s paying the cellphone companies...doesn’t have to be the owner.
“Not a crash. The Deep State is playing for keeps.”
Just to add to your posting a bit, the odds of someone close to either of the two Senators in Georgia being randomly killed in an automobile accident in the 2 months between The Steal and the Georgia Runoffs is 1 in 600. The odds of that happening in the week when things were really wild is just under 1 in 6000. Both possible, both EXTREMELY unlikely, though...
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