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Judge rules it's fine for car makers to intercept your text messages (www.malwarebytes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Judge rules it's fine for car makers to intercept your text messages::A judge has refused to bring back a class action lawsuit against four car manufacturers because the privacy violation did not meet the WPA standard.

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[–] ninekeysdown 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. The letter of the law vs the spirt of the law. So legal but not right

People shouldn’t have to not use or rip out their infotainment systems to have privacy. The automakers know that people are just going to take the path of least resistance and know that people aren’t going to read the fine print

[–] DoomBot5 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know for Android you can turn off text messages access for individual Bluetooth devices. That does provide a way to use it with the only lost feature being receiving and replying to text messages while you're driving.