Submitted 1 year ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy
Isn’t this just a basic legal concept. “In order to claim damages, there must be a breach in the duty of the defendant towards the plaintiff, which results in an injury”
Basically the judge is saying the plaintiff didn’t establish the basic foundation of a tort case. He’s not saying this isn’t wrong, he’s saying they didn’t present the case in a way that proves it.
It’s not enough to say “you shouldn’t be doing this”–even if that’s true.
the question here is, on it’s face does an invasion of privacy constitute an injury? I’d argue that yes, it does. Privacy has inherent value, and that value is lost the moment that private data is exposed. That’s the injury that needs to be redressed, regardless of whether or how the exposed data is used after the exposure. There could be additional injury in how the data is used, and that would have to be adjudicated and compensated separately, but losing the assurance that my data can never be used against me because it is only know to me is absolutely an injury in and of itself.
For privacy to have inherent value, it first must be an established, inherent right. Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t talk about it to my knowledge. I’ve always inferred that our rights against unlawful search and seizure basically encapsulate the concept, but whatever.
It sounds like you’d make a better lawyer than whoever brought this case.
I agree with you for whatever it’s worth.
I mean how did I get checks from Google and Facebook for violating privacy then?
The lawyers proved the case
Those checks go to the larger YouTube channels, not people like you and me. Did you mean something different?
/s
Sure except under this logic there’s no injury to someone peering through your windows. After all they didn’t do anything else…
Nice take.
I myself am fine with the ruling, but only if we get a full-ownership deal on the car, and can legally completely gut and replace parts that do that. Also, the car should be sold with a warning label regarding these issues.
Take a page from the conservative/GOP playbook and just find an activity judge who will wholesale accept your fabricated claim and provide a favorite judgement.
America sucks. Seriously. I’m just wanting for another country to bring it to the USA, because it seems inevitable.
Will it be another country though? Seems like the power has shifted and is continuing to shift from the nation state.
Disappointing result but this seems like something for the legislature to fix. Courts aren’t always the solution, sometimes you have to just fix the damn law.
But that would mean the politicians would have to actually work instead of photo ops and promises!!!
I wonder how long until we get to jailbreak our cars just so those cock suckers can’t spy on us.
Technically you already can. I just hope you have extensive programming knowledge because you’re going to have to take an axe to the existing code.
May be able to find and remove whatever it’s using as a cellphone antenna.
It can’t be illegal because you agree to allow them when you purchase the new vehicle. It’s all there in the T&C and PP, which no one ever reads. Don’t like it? Don’t buy new cars. I won’t.
So if I buy a used car they can’t do all that right?
Right?
Same privacy policy authorizing them to harvest your data, but older cars have a more limited capability to collect data compared to newer cars filled with sensors, cameras, and phone integrations. Plus older cellular networks are defunct for older vehicles so they can’t just exfil it without you helping or bringing it in to physically access it.
Illegal terms in T&C are still illegal regardless of whether you agreed to them or not in the US.
You can get a car, just don’t connect your phone to it.
One of these companies needs to be beached to prove damages, I guess.
Time for an old fashioned beach-off
This is why I keep my 2006 toyota in tip top shape. I will drive that car as long as I possibly can.
I’ve been having dreams lately where I’m driving around in my old 1987 thunderbird that I got in 2003 when I was in high school. It wasn’t a great car and I was hoping my next vehicle could be electric, but maybe that’s a sign I need to be going backwards.
I’ve got a 2007 Kia that I’m planning to drive until I can’t fix it anymore
So far that’s proving to be a pretty easy giving the cost and availability of parts
I’m taking my 2006 Avalon to 300k miles and beyond!
What’s the difference between never connecting your phone to a brand new high tech car and having no tech in an older car?
this is why i don’t own a car
In my region, where public transport doesn’t exist much at all, if you don’t drive, you might not eat or work (the lucky few work remotely, but not all).
Obvious next question: how’s the privacy policy on 3rd party stereo makers like Pioneer, Kenwood, Alpine, Jensen, etc.?
Why risk it? Build your own with a raspberry pi and a touchscreen.
This is what I want, but they make it very difficult to build something with parity unless you’re willing to sniff CANBUS codes one by one
Got a link to a good project of that type? I’ve been thinking about this recently.
Should be better since they usually don’t have an uplink capability. But if be real careful of any model that has Internet for any reason.
Well… fuck. More reason to not buy newer cars. At least you Americans are lucky. You can drive a dinosaur if it met with regulations. You technically don’t have to buy new cars… ever.
The scary thing? Define “new”. This judgment is from a lawsuit in 2014. So any car made in at least the last 9 years is doing this. Maybe newer cars are doing even worse things.
Setting aside questions of legality, it seems kind of like it wouldn’t encourage someone to purchase their cars.
That only helps when there's viable alternatives. Since pretty much all auto manufacturers do something like this it's not really a distinguishing feature.
And even if it was: how much worse/more expensive would a car need to be for you to not pick it over one that reads your text messages. And then ask the same question not for "you", but for the average consumer. Then be sad ...
Yeah but the vast majority of car buyers won’t know about this or care. We’re all privacy advocates here but everyone and their mother is on Facebook or Instagram and is happily giving away all their information already anyway.
Correct, the vast majority of people don’t care.
Well I am still so happy that I decided specifically to get a newish car that doesn’t have a touchscreen or any of this nonsense.
What model did you buy? It is rare to see one these days that doesn’t have all this nonsense.
2015 Buick encore. I did remove the fuse for the OnStar satellite nonsense though.
Wait, how are CARS intercepting mobile activities?
When you comment to Bluetooth, it asks your phone to share call, contact and SMS information.
Think like the old horrible text implementation, the ability to scan your contact list from the car, AMD see your recent calls.
When you comment to Bluetooth, it asks your phone to share call, contact and SMS information.
So they are intercepting your calls and messages with your permission? I don’t see the problem. If you don’t want them to do that, click “deny” when your phone asks if you want to share them with the car.
Mozilla tested a bunch. Try a search on the platform and see.
Through android auto and apple car play would be my guess, but i don’t know.
There’s no way Apple lets the automaker access app data from your phone. Apps on the phone can’t even see data from other apps on the phone.
There are two ways I can think of for the infotainment to get the messages. The first is by OCR-ing the CarPlay screen, which is shady as hell. The second is a feature like this one where the car has Bluetooth notification integration.
Thank goodness for Signal
If you connect your phone to the car, can it spy on your Signal messages? I mean, they have to decrypt on your end for you to see them, right? Or has Signal taken specific steps to stop this?
At least with my headunit (2015 Toyota). It cannot read the signal messages. Additionally, I remove contact and text permission from Bluetooth to be especially sure.
Just gotta get someone to hack their system. Then it’ll be easy to prove damages
Yet another item on my list of why I’ll never buy a modern car.
I recently found a video talkkng about privacy. One of the topic was that privacy does not ring any bell in people’s mind. Contrary to intimacy. Maybe we should all replace privacy by intimacy so we can tell what is really implied to non software people
Good point. Messages sent, images taken, and ‘things happen’ in cars.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Privacy is a fundamental human right.
Just not in Usa, as it seems. Here it is indeed the law that needs to be fixed.
humanrightscareers.com/…/is-privacy-a-human-right…
sj_zero 1 year ago
To be fair, pretty much every government breaks its own rules, particularly when privacy is involved.
We have the largest and most invasive world governments in the history of the world thanks to the overwhelming technology that allows such a thing. And even governments that pretend to follow the rules just get their buddies in another country to do their dirty work for them. "I can't spy on you, but England can!"
iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah and if the government is doing it you know other people have gotten their hands on it and are using it for gains.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Isn’t the EU trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption?