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I figured we’re not going to have much choice in the future. We’ll be driving cars under End User License Agreements that already send tons and tons of data about us back to the manufacturers.

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watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As much as I love technology, I hate the way it is being used. Car companies don’t make enough money selling cars so they need to collect and sell driver data? It’s dystopian.

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- bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They make plenty of money, they just want more money
  
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- JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Capitalism requires obtaining more capital than ever every quarter or you’ve failed as a company. They’re getting to the point they have to violate the customers privacy in order to chaise ever growing profits
  
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  - LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Capitalism only works in a growing company in a growing market. Once you’re reached a plateau it maxes out your client base you can’t go any higher other than artificially.
    
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    JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It seems to still be working for the mega corps now stealing and selling our private info, no one is stopping them and they’re taking in extra millions from it. Their original business may plateau at a certain point but then they branch out to more business models/types by using the money bucket from the original successful business
    
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  - Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What’s funny is that that only really applies to publicly owned companies where anyone can own shares of the company.
    
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- Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But thats rhe name of the game, enough is never enough.
  
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In US, maybe. But in EU things are already regulated enough that this can be avoided to a degree. It’s not there yet, but EC doesn’t like shit like this. We already have GDPR and forced separate warranties for hardware and software, ensuring you can fuck around with the latter without voiding warranty on the former. But at some point I fully expect some manufacturer to give you a kill switch from GSM modem and call it a feature, then everyone else will follow.

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