Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar”
arstechnica.comThe regulator is warning OEMs to respect data privacy or it will get mad.
It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction.
I think that the real “down near the metal” solution is to own a dumb car, but those are getting thin on the ground . . .
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Cody Doctorow wrote a short story about a group of newbie hackers doing just that.
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With pleasure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalized_(Doctorow_book)