A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.

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    1 year ago

    The car maker will gather your mundane data, and all other services you, your friends, parents, parents friends and employer use will also do that. Then data will be deanonymized, traded, aggregated, traded around some more and aggregated again. Suddenly all actors have a complete profile on you and your social network, where they can very accurately infer many data points not explicitly collected. Good luck gdpring every company in existence. Your profile is eternal and growing. Also 20% of entities holding your data also didn’t care to keep your data safe and lost it to the criminal element.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly I can’t tell if what you said is hypothetical. It seems closer to reality than fiction and that’s a scary concept.

      How do we fight back?