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Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds (www.consumerreports.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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[–] 39 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Not my 20-year-old car.

Without regulation, this will continue, and get worse. Remember to vote in every election you can, both local, and national.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Democrats aren't campaigning on this stuff so I'm not sure how voting is going to help this particular issue. They don't seem to care about it much.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Like this: Vote GOP and they won't so much as listen to their constituency. Vote Dem and there's some possibility that calls, letters, etc will get them to do something that favors their constituency. Voting is the first step. Making yourself heard, and being an ongoing nuisance about it is the second step. And you better believe that the conservative constituents are doing both steps. Democracy IS a Verb, in fact it's a Gerund, it's an ongoing process.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    What does voting have to do with anything?

    If you were paying attention about automobile privacy, you would known that democrats signed legislation into law in 2024 that requires all cars sold in the US to have driver monitoring software.

    https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-finalizes-key-safety-rule-reduce-crashes-and-save-lives

    https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027

    Partisan politics mean squat in the privacy sphere.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Are you sure about that? OnStar has been a thing since what? The 90s?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's not OEM, though. Those idiot consumers only have themselves to blame.

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