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GM banned from selling your driving data for five years (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not all carmakers, forever?

[+] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tesla, Tesla records EVERYTHING

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They only record and transmit out of the car if you've given data permission, and I believe in an accident, but I may be wrong on that. The internal camera stays internal as well, or E2E encrypted to only you via the app.

If you've given data permission though, assume they are taking everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm assuming you're referring to that Mozilla report, but it's never been clear to me even after reading it how these car companies collect data on your sex life of all things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or what? What's the cost of just ignoring this?

That seems to be the way of business these days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Grifters and thieves control the FTC now, there's zero chance that GM needs to comply with this. Worst case, FTC finds out they never stopped and GM has to pay a tiny percentage of the profit they made as a bribe to some of the criminals in charge of the government.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 1 points 2 months ago

Long enough for people to forget about it.

Also note that this is about selling your data, not collecting it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~Yo, stop reposting the same thing~~

Probably just a coincidence that it kept repeating on my feed