Comment on Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

• xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The car maker will gather your mundane data, and all other services you, your friends, parents, parents friends and employer use will also do that. Then data will be deanonymized, traded, aggregated, traded around some more and aggregated again. Suddenly all actors have a complete profile on you and your social network, where they can very accurately infer many data points not explicitly collected.

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  • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All big companies do analytics now. They have files on virtually every consumer from buy huge volumes of data and deanonynizing it, and then they know just about everything about you.

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  • endlessmeddler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly I can’t tell if what you said is hypothetical. It seems closer to reality than fiction and that’s a scary concept.

    How do we fight back?

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    • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You missed the articles about how shitty car tech privacy is?

      …mozilla.org/…/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-…

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      • endlessmeddler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that’s fucking depressing.

        Thanks Mozilla. One of the few good companies out there.

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