Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Privacy matters.

  The government and corporations abused this information by stopping protestors getting to their destination.

  Protestors can atleast use faraday bags or just leave their phones at home. Now they can’t even get to important events.

  Now this information is being used by ICE to arrest immigrants.

  Considering how conservative views and Nazis are coming back in to fashion, this is very scary for anyone not white and male.

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Privacy matters. If it didnt, bathrooms would not have doors.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine Senate passes law to put cameras in all toilet mention sensor. People still go, “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about. Genital recognition technology is used to identify criminals! Do you want criminals to get away?!”

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    privacy matters, but data collection isn’t limited to EVs. Pretty much all new cars collect data whether EV ICE or hybrid.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a used model 3 (I bought it before shit really started going downhill) and I’ve been contemplating disconnecting the wifi and cellular antennas. My car wouldn’t be able to send any images/video anywhere, I wouldn’t be tracked except for my location when I stop at supercharger stations, and I would never have to risk getting Grok installed in my car.

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• whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would you mind posting your phone book and a copy of all your text messages here for us all to read? Can we see your photo album, all credit card transactions, amazon purchase history, GPS location data, credit score? We promise only to sell this info to other people, use it to sell you stuff, raise your insurance rates, tell us where to focus our funding for political campaigns. Don’t worry, we’ll only save it forever and you can be assured that we’ll feed this into AI models 10 or 20 years from now, along with everyone else’s data, establishing a massive cache of information from which incredible inferences will be possible. We may or may not use this information to enrich ourselves, increase wealth inequality, influence politics. You should surely not take steps to limit the data being collected about you. Just relax your body. Let it happen.

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would you mind posting your phone book

    Did you know that before cellular phones were a thing, the phone company regularly sent out books with everyone’s name, phone number, and sometimes even their address in them?

    You could even find such a book in public in these little things called “Phone booths”.

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    • whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      You’ve missed the point. The phone numbers are not the valuable information. What’s valuable is the list of each person’s social contacts.

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      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        You’ve missed the point.

        The point is the useful trivia I just told you.

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    • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And people were concerned. My grandpa only had initials published not his full name because he knew some widows [when my mom was a baby] afraid of crime who only published their initials and wanted to make things harder for those criminals who targeted on widows.

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