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Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)
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[โ€“] brygphilomena 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is more based on authorization vs CC details. It's much safer for a company than holding onto credit card numbers. Creating a subscriptions generates an authorization code which is good for the account, not just a specific card number. Revoking that authorization is a separate call to the bank rather than just having a credit card replaced.

[โ€“] AbidanYre 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That authorization shouldn't be indefinite either though. After three years of no activity and a card expiring, OnStar was still able to make a charge to renew that trial subscription.

And looking around the web, there are a few stories from that 2016 time frame to indicate that it was a new-ish, or at least not well known, practice at the time.