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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 copies of your data also didn't care to keep your data safe and lost it to the criminal element. Somewhere on the dark net you can now buy access to a database where you can query for that shopping list you sent over your cars entertainment system and also your sexual preferences and social security number.

[–] JustZ 2 points 1 year ago

All big companies do analytics now. They have files on virtually every consumer from buy huge volumes of data and deanonynizing it, and then they know just about everything about you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] coffeebiscuit 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that's fucking depressing.

Thanks Mozilla. One of the few good companies out there.