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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Most major car manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information — though they are vague on the buyers, a new study finds, and half say they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.

The proliferation of sensors in automobiles — from telematics to fully digitized control consoles — has made them prodigious data-collection hubs.

But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey. Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

“Maybe we sell it, maybe we don’t. Why do you care it’s all out there anyhow….”

Yeah. We don’t have privacy because assholes like these own politicians and it’s big business. Does mean I don’t want it.

[-] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Spokesman Brian Weiss said that for safety reasons the group “has concerns” about letting customers completely opt out.

God, what ass holes.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

My god the future is lame as fuck.

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Atleast something cool was happening in, say, the 40’s to make it interesting.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Change your cities to be human centric instead of car centric. Build bicycle lanes, Changr building zoning in suburbs so that small shops and restaurants are sprinkled thought. Invest heavily in public transportation

Now we mostly no longer need cars. We're healthier because we move more, we're healthier because the air is cleaner, cities are safer and prettier, quieter, everything gets better.

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Will there be FOSS alternatives for car software at some point lol

[-] scala@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Conspiracy to manipulate securities that they aren't listed in the article to begin with, I'm sure. Corporate media at work. It's just billionaire stock holders and hedge funds back and back, and around again.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think the newest car is even consider is 2008. Once they started putting telemetry in our cars it was inevitable that they’ll collect every possible datapoint to sell.

I don’t get the need for any of the new features anyways. My 2004 escape does everything I need it to with absolutely no fancy electronics. The cruise control still moves the throttle pedal ffs. The stereo is a $75 dumb radio and everything else is analog.

My next daily driver will probably be whatever I can find that’s older and fun to drive. Some of the new cars look great, especially the EVs, but I’m not willing to let them have that much data about me

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

How's this interact with ccpa?

[-] rebul@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

We just need to learn where the data is stored, then figure out how to wipe it.

[-] zzzzzz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know if that'll help. Most cars are internet-connected nowadays. They can just stream the data back home.

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Most cars are internet-connected nowadays

So there's a sim card somewhere. Find it, remove it.

[-] rebul@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there will be YouTube videos showing how to remove/dismantle.

[-] coco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Doh !!!! Ima gunna hold their beeer while they re doing this shit

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