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It's actually much worse. All of the electronics also causes the machine to collect quite a bit of data on how/when it is used. WRT to the individual farmer, th
by ChicagoBoy11 7y ago
It's actually much worse. All of the electronics also causes the machine to collect quite a bit of data on how/when it is used. WRT to the individual farmer, that data now has value and the manufacturer can extract that value by requiring the customer to pay to have access to it. At scale, that data can be sold off to hedge funds and other wall street shops to help inform data trading algorithm on grain futures and the like, so that too is an incentive to try and prevent joe schmo from having access to it.
- harikb 7y agoThis is an excellent point. There must also be some right and/or control for the owner generating this data, so that they can access it independently, at least in some raw form. I wonder if this qualifies under GDPR like law. If my cookie is private data, why can't the movement of my truck be?
- asdff 7y agoSeems like a good opportunity for a white hat to crack the probably shitty security and give this data to farmers for free.