GM Allegedly Spied On Drivers And Sold Their Data, Now It's Paying A $220M Settlement - The Autopian
www.theautopian.comAfter allegedly selling driver data to third parties, GM has agreed to a $220 million settlement. Here's what this means.
If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…
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Other companies from other countries do this as well. You shouldn’t trust any car maker.
Pretty much. I drive a car that has NO “smart” features at all. I will keep it as long as I can.
I’d much rather have my info taken by a foreign company than an american one.
I’d much rather have my info taken by neither a US-American one, nor another foreign one. I want my info to be taken exclusively by Swiss bankers! Their extortion letters look better than the others’.
I only want my data extracted by honorable japanese capitalists, not american pig capitalist
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/
I prefer the VW. Yeah, they are clearly trying to collect everything they can, but I think their software corrupts the data. I mean something is happening that they can’t seem to make money off anything. Waiting until the battery warrenty is up to mess with anything that could take it off their grid.
That’s the spirit!