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Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies (jacobin.com)
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It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.

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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

Please disable your firewall to be able to access the car steering features.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

🤣🤣

This is the most ridiculous, pathetic, dumb, greedy, asshole thing I can totally imagine big auto doing.

Yep. 💯% if they would offer subscriptions for heated seats; you’re god damn right they would do some shit like this.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

And with steer by wire like in the cybertruck, they could fully disable it.

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