Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’re headed rapidly toward a social credit system, but run by our corporate overlords instead of government. To quote The Stupendium:

  You seem so surprised, what did you expect?

  We’re thinking outside of that box that you checked

  The terms were presented in full to inspect

  You scrolled to the end just to get to “Accept”

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  • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The other side of that coin is, if we all read the bullshit extended legalise in every licence/privacy agreement for everything we've ever used, we'd never do anything else but read them.

    Besides which, it's not like there's a choice aside from accepting the agreement or not using the thing. Alternatives? All have similar agreements attached.

    Basically, this is just a symptom of how much "better" modern life is. But hey, at least we don't need to worry about lions eating us quite so much.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s the point of reading them? I know there’s a lot I disagree with but I also know i can’t see before buying, I can’t do anything about it, nor are there realistically other choices. All modern cars do it. For any place with any consumer protection, they should be unenforceable, but I’m in the US so have to settle for there’s nothing I can do about it

      These are just legal cover, so they can say “see, he agreed,according to our definition”. It doesn’t change what they are doing or whether they would have already

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      • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The song is from the perspective of the company, not the consumer.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But hey, at least we don’t need to worry about lions eating us quite so much.

      I’m pretty confident that humans have killed and eaten more lions than lions have humans.

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    • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we don’t need to worry about lions eating us

      Someone didn’t read the line item in the EULA.

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      • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It's OK. I crossed it out with a marker on the screen before clicking agree.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re basically already there with credit scores.

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    • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps. There is a lot you can do to present the right appearance w/ respect to financial transactions. There’s not so much you can do when companies are exchanging data about your routine activities behind you back. Or they assume it is about you, who is going to hold them to account? Nobody.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Insert southpark centipede meme here.

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• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It only impossible if you don’t try

  Reach out to your reps

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