"...you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine..." but you already know that, right?

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If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine
that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity.

details:

gizmodo.com

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand failed a recent privacy and security test from Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a "privacy nightmare" that may collect information as sensitive as your race, health status, and sexual activity.
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Surely glad my fleet doesnt do this type of thing. New cars cost so much. Tattletales LOL. This started years ago with black box type recorders in cars for the data. Way worse now.

Think all the cameras
And oh that microphone

They are getting and seeing it ALLLLLLL

Yay for auto start stop
 
from the article:

"Kia’s privacy policy reserves the right to monitor your “sex life"..."
"Nissan reserves the right to share and sell “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” ..."
 
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turkeydance said:
from the article:

"Kia’s privacy policy reserves the right to monitor your “sex life"..."
"Nissan reserves the right to share and sell “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” ..."
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Me. said:
I wonder what that does to battery life. When a phone can’t find a tower it will boost its power usage to try it reach out.

When I would work for hours in a server room that had no signal, my phone‘s battery would drain much faster, but this was years ago.
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Yeh it will drain the battery faster than usual unless you put phone on airplane mode
 
My old 82 Ford Granada had two stains on the backseat from a chick that sat up sans pants. I'll spare the details, but that car would have had some sex life to report to the mothership if it were up to modern standards. Instead I had a sister that used the car on occasion to report to all her friends about sights and smells in the car.
 
Diablos said:
Ford ceo says i got to make 100k to afford his new vehicles, i dont forsee encountering this issue...ever
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That’s all well and good until the affordable brands incorporate “luxury” features like this. It’s akin to shitting in the pool. It might not get you right now but eventually the bad idea gets everywhere.
 
WeepingAngel said:
That’s all well and good until the affordable brands incorporate “luxury” features like this. It’s akin to shitting in the pool. It might not get you right now but eventually the bad idea gets everywhere.
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i'll keep driving my truck until it becomes a classic, then keep on driving it till its an antique
 
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