Comment on It's always for your safety

• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And why would they do that?

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Data is a valuable commodity. I think one car company filed a patent not long ago for a system that listens to conversations in the car and then serves advertisements on the central console based on those.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Money mostly. I hear companies like making money.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To follow drivers jerking off to gay porn. The biggest fear of America.

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    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why wouldn’t they?

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      • garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because it’s expansive to collect and process that data?

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• D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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