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Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance
- akimbostrawman 1y agoIts not subscriptions doing the surveillance but mandatory (legal or technical) black boxes built into the car...
- fwn 1y agoYeah, any tracking expands the surface for surveillance, whether it's for subscriptions or for safety. Market incentives make subscription tracking likely to become more and more all-encompassing, though. (like with "Smart"-TVs) That's a dynamic absent from safety tracking. OTOH, safety tracking is politically much harder to push back against because it's framed as a protection or safety feature. ... hard to tackle if it's there by law in some global juristictions.
- jqpabc123 1y agoI smell a business opportunity for someone to design little Faraday cages that fit over the "shark fin" antennas on roofs of cars.
- _mlbt 1y agoThis ship sailed when everyone started carrying internet connected smart GPS devices in their pockets. Even before that cell phone tower triangulation has been a thing. I agree that it would be nice if our cars didn’t track us, but this is small potatoes.
- PeterStuer 1y agoDon't the subscriptions just allow you to also access/use the data already collected (and sold) anyways?