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Ford Panopticon: Crowd-Sourced Car Tracking Revealed in New Patent (fuelarc.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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We all know automakers want to keep tabs on their cars. Stolen vehicle tracking? Sure. Fleet management? Fine. Microphone eavesdropping to serve more ads? Hate it, but OK, that’s a thing. Hold onto your tin-foil hats: Ford just filed a patent for something that takes vehicle tracking into full-blown Twilight Zone territory. Always-On Tracking… In Your Car, or Somebody Else’s.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am absolutely furious to find out that you can totally turn off those alerts... by calling a literal phone number. You call Sirius FM, and they deactivate it, I guess it's a free trial or some BS.

Comment #15 from Kailua Coach seems to do what you want done, what a shitheaded design:

https://www.pacificaforums.com/threads/turn-off-weather-alerts.37618/

[–] ThePantser 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope, did that. Even went as far as demanding my radio be deleted from their system. As we have no gdpr protections and I am not in California they refuse to delete it. And they continue to send the weather alerts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuuuuck!!!

Unethical pro life tip... it's not like they KNOW you're not a European. Hit them with the GDPR request anyhow. ThePantser sounds close enough to DerPanzer. Worth a shot, what do I know, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They know you're not a European. You bought and drive the car in America and presumably park it in America at night. It's not like they don't know where it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the "News of the Strange," we do have Europeans in the USA :) Being located in the USA is not a universal guarantee that you are not eligible for GDPR protections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If you're European but residing in America long term, using American companies from on American soil are you still subject to European GDPR protections? I don't actually know, I could understand an argument being made either way I think. I guess if you're an active European citizen you got me there, but I don't think many of those are here in America buying new cars are they?

Also, I needed an ID and credit card to buy a car... The dealer definitely knew who I was. I don't know if you can just buy those cash anymore.

I could also just be wrong on all counts, but I think a car dealership has many ways to ensure whether or not you are subject to GDPR protections. Faking it probably isn't going to get you very far.