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promised feedback and digital badges for good driving.
“you don’t drive like a total asshole; here’s a gold star!”
Vs
“you’ve used your brakes more than once today; heres a 30% insurance rate hike”
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Submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to privacyguides@lemmy.one
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
[deleted]Treczoks@kbin.social 7 months ago
I woner when they think is has blown over, and start selling user data again.
Maeve@kbin.social 7 months ago
Sure. After certain companies decided to stop supporting a certain political party's most vitriolic candidates over persecution of the lgbtq community, began quarterly funding again. At least I think it was over LGBTQ hate morning.
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.
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.
mick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
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.
Dreizehn@kbin.social 7 months ago
Tracked through On Star. According to the data, my use of regenerative braking makes me a hard breaker, but the pads are 70%.
oDDmON@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now the other manufacturers just need to do the same.
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
To be resumed at the end if the month, I’m sure.
reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For now.
Binthinkin@kbin.social 7 months ago
Remember Rudy Russo. There is a reason car salesman were parodied back in the day. It’s because the auto industry is full of crooks and shitbags from top to bottom.
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah, sure. Who tf, in 2024, would believe that?
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
The article is pay walled, but there’s no way they’re not selling that data. They’ll just sell it to a different middleman that isn’t technically a “data broker”.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah it’s a data broker broker. Totally legit.
kautau@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“We didn’t sell it to a data broker. We sold it to Jeff. Not our fault if Jeff sold it to a data broker”