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Not because they're much better but because discoveries like these will leave a bad taste in people's mouth whenever they want to buy a new TV. It ain't just T
by mikestew 1mo ago
Not because they're much better but because discoveries like these will leave a bad taste in people's mouth whenever they want to buy a new TV.
It ain't just TVs. Now that I've found out that my Hyundai is not only spying on me, but snitching to the insurance company, I might just take South Korea companies off my list for anything.
- rickdeckard 1mo agoAlso applies to GM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-motors-settlement-driving-location https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-moto... You know who DOESN'T sell the data to outside companies? Car-vendors which have large competing in-house financial services arms that use the data themselves (VW, BMW, Ford, Stellantis, Tesla,...) The issue is not a single company, it's that there is insufficient regulation against this.
- microtonal 1mo agoWe should draft such a regulation and call it General Data Protection Regulation. My guess is that we'll see a lot of malicious compliance.
- rickdeckard 1mo agoFunny enough, in that one region where this regulation exists, no such incidents of user data being sold was discovered so far...