Comment on It's always for your safety

hanke@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This …europa.eu/…/safer-cars-safer-roads-new-rules-tak… does not explicitly mention “camera”, like most news articles does, but I guess the points

  Advanced driver distraction warning system to keep drivers focused

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  Better forward vision

  are a bit hard to implement without camera + computer vision.

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  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But there is no requirement to send that data anywhere

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Automakers collect and store all data by default. If there’s no law saying they CAN’T collect it then gunnery collect it.

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      • garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And why would they do that?

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    • D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I recently watched a few videos about people taking the modems/WiFi boxes out of their new cars to stop the constant data collection.
      On one of the videos there’s a warning that if you attach your phone to your car then the car will almost certainly start to contact through the BT to ‘phone home’ again to send data that way.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And without consent is against EU law with a €20M fine.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’ll just sign the consent by getting in the car. They already do that for the microphones.

        Will it hold up in court? We’ll only know once someone sues.

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• DeepDown@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t give you a source but the whole point of The Internet of Things and every product that it includes is to give data on you to someone. It’s kind of safe to assume that if one of your devices can connect to WiFi and you live in a location with representatives who are too old to even vaguely understand why that should be regulated, then you are being reported on. It’s just kind of the whole purpose of the tech in the first place. At least until the device in question has a screen, then the purpose will be to also show you an ad.

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