Doubt any heads will roll. I bet this feature was approved by the C-suite and board of directors. Look, we can create two revenue streams with one simple offer—get car buyers to subscribe to On Star so we can collect data, and then sell the data. All legal because nobody reads the fine print in the contract.
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something_random_tho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How did this happen in the first place, and why aren’t heads rolling? This was a shockingly bad decision that caused massive damage to their brand for a comparatively small amount of money.
mick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
. . . Because the auto industry is a true bastion of male privilege and they’re all crazy rich?
They’re above the law. And that clown show in DC isn’t going to do shit so long as republiQans have the votes to stop it.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 7 months ago
Why would heads roll? Those heads are being rewarded by the Boards of Directors.
Congress has no incentive to legislate this, voters don’t prioritize privacy, financial interests that benefit from the status quo include the largest companies in the USA.
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Nearly all auto companies were found to collect data, not just GM. They are probably all selling that data.
something_random_tho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same question posed to them.
Notably the EU companies (e.g. Audi, Mercedes, BMW), while they have poor privacy scores from Mozilla, were not actively selling your data to brokers to hike your insurance rates. So there’s that.
Maeve@kbin.social 7 months ago
They are. Mozilla provided a comprehensive report on several major car manufacturing corporations selling data to all kinds of brokers.