Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

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• ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Automakers should not even have access to any of your information!

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  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No company or entity should have the ability to sell my information. And at the very least not have access to it without my consent.

    Especially if it influences how much I pay for insurance. Next thing you know, if you live near a McDonalds, your health insurance is gonna go up.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Demand GDPR. No ifs, no buts. Its even written in several languages.

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    • cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      don’t give them ideas 🫣

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the argument they should have gotten a better deal?

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And that’s why the top 500 companies should be publicly owned

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  literally pennies, Honda selling 4 years of access for only 25k is insane

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• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone posted this recently, how to opt out of data collection.

  eff.org/…/how-figure-out-what-your-car-knows-abou…

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• timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The more you pay, the harder you get ducked.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Headline makes it sound like the senators previously urged the FTC but were ignored.

  Two things:

  1: The “urging” mentioned took place today.

  2:

  In March, the F.T.C., which is responsible for policing unfair and deceptive business practices, solicited reports from consumers about the issue, but an agency spokeswoman said she couldn’t comment on whether the agency is investigating.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Way to focus on the important parts 🙄

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  laughs in 2003 1.8t Jetta

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At some point, that car won’t be cost-effective to repair, and you’ll want to replace it. Be a lot better to have strong privacy legislation in place when that happens.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am my own mechanic, and rock auto exists. I’ll be driving that fucker into the ground. It’s a great little car.

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