Not even an apology. They’ll spend money smearing the FTC leader. And call it a witch hunt. And publicize all the people who will lose their jobs if the company has to pay these fines.
And they are hedging their bets that Trump becomes president and the FTC gets gutted, so there won’t be any fines anyway.
The FTC is not taking specific action against any automaker at this point. Instead, the blog post is meant to be a warning to the industry.
So, the only thing that will change will either be a tiny EULA on the underside of the car, or car companies will hire better security teams to keep the data collection hidden.
The last time I considered buying anything from HP was, like, 2001.
Others with lower prices innovated.
Then when HP lowered prices, it was because they loaded up with 3rd party subscription programs pre-installed, went with brittle parts that were expensive to fix, systems were slow from bad drivers, and hid repair info. I think they were the first to DRM their printer cartridges. I think they were the first to start ink subscriptions.
No way I’d own anything from HP.