• Roopappy@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    It seems like the “cars tracking you” problem is a very real and very serious thing that should obviously be legislated separately of electric vehicles or country of manufacture.

    I got a Mazda recently, and I was reading all the ownership paperwork, and the guy asked me what I was looking for. I said “I’m looking for the language about what data Mazda is collecting about me.” And the guy laughed and said there’s nothing in the paperwork about that. They just do it. You can’t shut it off.

      • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Amazon did a thing where if your wifi is down Alexa can connect to a neighbors Alexa which will relay the message to the server.

        I imagine a car could do the same much easier, you pull up to the lights next to a car from the same manufacturer and it relays all your telemetrics.

        It’s time for an open source car.