Customers were surprised when their insurance rates went up.
    • fxomt@lemm.eeM
      11·
      2 days ago

      not so fun fact: some cars even collect information about your sexual activity.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days 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.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days 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.

        • confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          14 hours ago

          Cars have gps built in even if you don’t use the onboard navigation. For some odd reason you care goes to a particular club / establishment every Thursday and stays parked there for 2.75 to 3.5hrs each time. If I took all the data your car’s gps collected, I bet I could make some pretty good inferences about you. Even if they’re wrong but roughly accurate, I could still sell it.

          Now imagine something associated with where you’re going suddenly becomes illegal or target activity. Now you’re on a cool new government list.

          Heck let’s go one step further. The location you frequent gets associated with pro Israel or pro Palestine. And since all companies are perfectly with safeguarding data, somehow has a breach. Now a true wackadoodle has this and your home location. What could possibly go wrong here? All actions and dialogue around this topic have been perfectly mannered and civil </s>. You might not even have a clue that your now associates with something to which you had no awareness or affiliation.

          All of these scenarios go away if they didn’t harvest data.

          • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            13 hours ago

            I mean I know how data harvesting and fingerprinting works. I just don’t see how sex life is going to be anywhere near accurate lol.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      11·
      2 days 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.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    11·
    2 days ago

    Yo, stop reposting the same thing

    Probably just a coincidence that it kept repeating on my feed