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Mandatory user tracking is one thing I don't like in the new electric mobility products. I don't want a "smart" always-connected bicycle, scooter, or car. I wan

• bamboozled 6y ago
  Face it though, with facial recognition and license plate scanning, it doesn't really matter that much, you're being tracked.
  • srg0 5y ago
    There is a difference who gets the data and how it is used. I may be tracked by the government, which already has my taxes to pay the costs, and it has been around since long before I was born. I may be tracked by my phone OS vendor (Apple or Google). But they have been around long enough, are big enough, have established business models, and are already kings of the mountain, so they're are unlikely to share data with anyone else (It would undermine their public image and competitive advantages). Most startups, on the other hand, eventually run out of cash, and then they and their data are often for sale to the highest bidder. Most companies in less free countries can be strong armed by their governments. So the information which they collect may be the same, but my trust to different entities is completely different. Like most people, I go for a compromise, and I trust some of them, and accept what I can't change. I just want to keep the number of trusted entities as small as possible. The vendors of my car, my bike, my fridge, my vacuum cleaner, and my t-shirt are not among those I want to have any role in my life after I paid them money.