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"So, what's the worst that could happen with your happy little Subaru Outback? Well, it would really stink to go visit your Mom, go for a ride in her new Subaru
by TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
"So, what's the worst that could happen with your happy little Subaru Outback? Well, it would really stink to go visit your Mom, go for a ride in her new Subaru with all it's fancy, connected features, have a private conversation with Mom about how you helped your friend drive from state that outlawed abortion to one that does, and then end up have that audio recorded, then shared with law enforcement because Subaru says in their privacy policy they can share or sell that personal information, including to "detect and prevent criminal activity." That is perhaps a far fetched scenario and we really hope Subaru would never do that...but still, it seems like it is something that could happen, based on their privacy policy.
- croes 3y agoWhat if they are forced by governmental order to hand over their data?
- vulcan01 3y agoThe question is, why are they collecting it in the first place?
- kingcobraninja 3y agoTwo and a half words: post-purchase monetization
- jprete 3y agoI think the GP's question is more rhetorical, or, to put it as a non-rhetorical question: "Why is it acceptable on any level for my car to become a spyware device on par with Facebook, when I paid an enormous sum to be its owner and controller for my own benefit, and not to become a residual profit stream for ${CAR_COMPANY}?".
- imglorp 3y agoRecurring revenue. What's a dossier like that with on the market when it includes location, Bluetooth IDs of all occupants and private conversations? $5/mo? $10$?
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- croes 3y agoI guess they collect simply everything and don't want to filter out.
- nextaccountic 3y agoBut if data wasn't worth anything, they wouldn't bother, right?
- ekianjo 3y agoHave you asked your ISP the same question
- Ar-Curunir 3y agoI think a car has a different position in "internet connectivity" than a ISP... (not to excuse ISP data collection, but implying that a car is as critical for network access as an ISP is nonsense)
- ekianjo 3y agoThe ISP has technically no business knowing what you visited after they transfer the bits to you
- pastage 3y agoI have been living under a rock the last ten years so I thought the EU still had the data retention directive. Between 2006-2014 all ISPs were required to logg traffic in the EU. I am so glad you are right! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
- nullc 3y agoMany potential forms of ISP data collection are unlawful in the US thanks to wiretap laws, which is why we don't generally see this level of surveillance from ISPs here.
- andrepd 3y agoBingo. Signal for example, is also subject to US law. They can be compelled to reveal everything they have in a person. Which they happily do: they hand over a page with the date of account creation and the day it last connected. Which is all they have. Don't collect information, and you don't have a problem.
- asvitkine 3y agoBecause there's no law preventing it? Ideally there would be regulations making this illegal unless they get the user's consent at the time of purchase as well as allowing users to opt out at any point thereafter.
- berniedurfee 3y agoMoney
- hooverd 3y agoYou can't hand over data you don't have.
- johndhi 3y agoAs someone who works in privacy I find it really funny and sad that all of the legal requirements to create and display privacy policies result only in this: conjecture about what a company might do based on its vague privacy policy language.
- _svoh 3y agoIt's crazy, almost like people don't trust corporations to be reasonable when they have such vague abuses of the law to escape into. Maybe we shouldn't have to trust corporations not to spy on us in spaces that carry reasonable expectations of privacy. Maybe we should regulate their greedy data-grubbing into the ground so we don't even have to speculate, and so the miserable people who work at these corporations are stymied from even attempting it. What a splendid utopian ideal.
- Ylpertnodi 3y agoI work in privacy, too - mine.
- berniedurfee 3y agoI hope you’re just trolling, I’ll bite. Privacy is not about what someone _might_ do with your data, it’s what they _can_ do with your data. It’s also that they have your data, which means it can be exposed to staff or the world as the result of a breach.
- johndhi 3y agoDisagree on first statement. It's what they do with it that matters, not what the contract says. On the second point, sure, but so we have knowledge of what, how, and for how long, the carmakers are storing?
- travisporter 3y agoWould you sign a paper saying I can come into your house unannounced if I suspect you stole something? If you do not steal you have nothing to worry about