Posted on 01/09/2014 10:06:54 AM PST by billorites
Ford's Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.
Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they're doing it.
Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.
Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems. Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.
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Just how can one disable this? Will a 1/4 inch drill in the right place do it?
Yep. Just like Santa Claus. I predicted this some time ago. The black box in your car will give you up for speeding, as soon as the state figures out a way to sift the data from all those other cars.
Are you related to this gal? BTW-is your car male or female?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8ew4aafN4
I don’t know of anybody who fits the description you’re talking about.
And there’s a heckuva difference between the free market doing stuff - where you can vote with your checkbook - and the government doing it (where they can mandate everything, for all those living in Rio Linda, as Rush might say).
For instance, Ford may have no reason to want to program my car to go 100 mph and crash into a tree, but I can guarantee you that there are people in the US and HI government who would like to. And if I had a car that had On-Star they have the means and opportunity to do it as well as motive.
Also, how the heck is watching my every move making this country safer from terrorist attacks? Tell me exactly how that is helping anybody. For surveillance purposes it is only CLOGGING their system because they’ve got that much more data to sift through. All that surveillance on me, and yet they had the Tsarnaev brothers in their sights and didn’t do a dang thing about it, before they helped Osama Bin Laden’s son Hamza blow up the Boston Marathon finish line.
But then, they had Hamza in the hospital also, and the forensic evidence to label him a “known terrorist” but what did the federal government do? They sent Michelle Obama to visit him in the hospital, took off the “known terrorist” classification, and sent him out of the country so the Boston Police couldn’t get him either. Only to let him in again 3 months later to gloat over a 4th of July event at the White House for US military personnel...
Anybody who talks about this regime following my every move in order to “keep us all safe” gets a big fat raspberry in the face from me. Get Hamza back here and put his sorry a$$ in jail right alongside Barry and Michelle his accomplices in terror, and THEN we can talk about the government using ANY of this stuff to “keep us safe”.
Time to buy and invest in GPS blockers.
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Count me out. I remember radar detectors. And how many states outlawed the use of them.
Same thing with a GPS blocker. The state will only fine you if you use one.
Yeah...umm does it have a ballast resistor?
:))
of course they don’t/s
Just how can one disable this? Will a 1/4 inch drill in the right place do it?
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Sure. It will disable the GPS, and by design disable your whole car.
It’ll leave you for a newer model and take half of your half.
I’ve tracked my GPS vs. speed limit accuracy. It’s not accurate.
“By the way, we don’t supply that data to anyone”
Right. I believe them, don’t you?
“I’ll respect you in the morning”
“The check’s in the mail”
“If you like your insurance company, you can keep it”
Fire him!
Maybe the Zuck has a job for him.
Really?
I’ve used the MPH shown on my Garmin GPS verses the actual speedometer on the car.
The GPS is more accurate in acutal miles per hour.
YMMV.
I know... The idea that a lot of good, old rolling stock ended up in the crusher infuriates me. Same for Kalifornistans block drilling program where old V8’s weren’t re-sold or rebuilt, but had their cores destroyed.
They can do it with your cell phone too.
I’m saying actually that my GPS somehow picks up the posted speed limit and compares it to my speed and my speed flashes red to indicate that I’m speeding. The inaccuracy is in the determination of the posted speed limit.
I’ve been on roads where the speed limit is 75mph, but the GPS thinks it is 65mph.
Oh yeah. You’re right. Mine does that too
I keep that old 65 Willys Jeep and an old 77 Blazer that isn’t in service in storage.
I’d like to get a 67 or 68 Cougar like I used to have.
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