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A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Car manufacturers have brilliantly managed to convince me never to buy a car made after ~2015.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's gonna be standard practice to pull the cellular modem out of cars when putchased, or at least pull the fuse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

They're gonna tie it into a safety component so it can't be messed with. Likely they'll say it's tied to the emergency system that can alert authorities in the event of an accident.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They'll make it an essential loop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is just some rank and file employee that’s just trying to get that sweet patent bonus money.