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To be clear, my criticism is why do folks think the car, itself, is the "privacy nightmare?" If I was to label anything as a privacy nightmare in the world tod
by taeric 3y ago
To be clear, my criticism is why do folks think the car, itself, is the "privacy nightmare?" If I was to label anything as a privacy nightmare in the world today, it would almost certainly be the entirety of finance, not my car. Even if my car does start recording all of this.
Information about people is something i think deserves a lot of legislation. And I'd expect it to be very cross cutting. I see very little advantage of special casing cars/phones/whatever.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI honestly can't tell if we're agreeing or disagreeing at this point. I agree that all of those things are problems and I would welcome some reasonable legislation to protect people's privacy regardless of the particular vector. But none of that makes cars not a privacy nightmare, regardless of it not being unique to them.
- taeric 3y agoYeah, I suspect it sounded like I was asserting that cars are not sources of privacy concerns. My post was not really trying to assert that. I'm only saying that cars are not even close to the worst place that privacy is lost. Your ISP and the general financial institutions know far more about you than the car can help reveal. (Heck, your purchase history alone is probably more than enough to get a good idea of where and how you have traveled throughout the day.) To that end, I can fully get behind efforts to protect how information about people is used and stored. I don't know why "in cars" is particularly important to that discussion. Outside of the fact that cars need to be added to the same list of sources that other items are on. So, yeah, outside of my not seeing cars as a nightmare, we probably fully agree. I don't know what makes the car a nightmare moreso than most anything else out there.