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Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

More that peoples' movement data isn't worth much, so it wouldn't be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.

As Sen. Wyden says:

This is timely in light of JD Vance's comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.

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