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It doesn't strike me as ridiculous that a car's nav would keep track of where you've been.
by et2o 7y ago
It doesn't strike me as ridiculous that a car's nav would keep track of where you've been.
- vb6sp6 7y agoIt collects 25gb of information an hour and beams it back to the car marker. So a bit more that just your location.
- rootusrootus 7y agoIf there were really 25GB of data going back to GM, I can't imagine what their wireless contract costs are like.
- vb6sp6 7y agonot all data needs to flow back and compression still exists
- rootusrootus 7y agoSure, but data that doesn't flow back isn't much use to anyone, nor much of a danger to the consumer, and no amount of compression is going to make 25GB of raw data per hour per car for 100M cars anything other than very, very expensive. They probably send very little data.
- dwild 7y agoThis is seriously scary, how easy it is to make disinformation. The article never mentions beaming all this data to the car maker. In which world could you believe that GM could make enough from the data to pay to transfer that much data? The fact is, they simply don't know what the data GM receive is, they only mentions what the computer store (and what it could potentially store). This is the world we live in, an article about what data a computer store make everyone believe all this data is send to someone else.
- vb6sp6 7y ago> The article never mentions beaming all this data to the car maker you are correct, we do not know how much of the data is beamed back > The fact is, they simply don't know what the data GM receive is We know they send things like "braking and turning styles" which they will helpfully send to your insurance company if you want :) > In which world could you believe that GM could make enough from the data to pay to transfer that much data? The one we live in. You don't pay developers to log, transmit, and store data for funsies.