It’s almost insulting how cheap the data is going for.
The insurance company buys your driving data for less than a dollar, then cranks your premiums potentially hundreds of dollars per year. Easy money for the insurance company, easy money for the data broker, easy money for the car company, and the little guy gets the shaft as usual.
I think the rhetoric about data gathering needs to change. The average person doesn’t really care all that much about their privacy. “The government and all the tech companies are spying on me anyway,” they think. “If I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear,” they tell themselves.
But if people actually understood just how much the prices they pay are driven by data warehousing, there’d be rioting in the streets.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Car makers should not have access to this information at all, except in cases when the owner explicitly chooses to give them a specific piece of it.
(Similarly, phone makers should not have access to conversations and camera makers should not have access to videos, except in cases when the owner explicitly chooses to record and give them a specific piece.)
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Hot take: make data brokers illegal and audit these companies for compliance.
asyncopation@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s insane to me the complete lack of consumer protection in the digital age. Our cars used to be our sanctuary. A symbol of freedom and comfort. Now they’re dystopian nightmares that make me very uncomfortable.
Not only that, but you have companies replacing apple/android auto with shit tech they have no business building. Predictably there are leaks all the time.
Genuine question: are there any options out there for someone who wants a simple car and is willing to pay a little more to avoid built in spyware and subscriptions for every tiny feature?
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Time to take the bus!
PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The fact they call the nav screen “infotainment” tells you how much most of it isn’t needed.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
People have become accustomed to the corporate and government invasion of their lives little by little. This will most likely continue until it is too late.
A sad world indeed.