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Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs (www.theregister.com)

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Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs::Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules

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[–] Denatured@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eli5 me pls. The story from the article is based in the land of the free and fake materialism. Does that mean these manufacture cant do that in the rest of the world yet? Or is it exclusively the go to country for testing out ways to further exploit money out of... well, one of the significantly poorest (financial inequality) poputional in the world (cost of living credit debt).

Edit: fixed grammar, some words changed/added/replace. Was sounding rude and only realized that after rereading much later.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This lawsuit was based on a US-only privacy law so it says nothing about what they can do in other countries. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I assume and hope most other nations actually protect their citizens from stuff like this, but cannot say based on this.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you read the terms and conditions on manufactures websites you’ll notice that in the US based sites they will mention merely being a passenger is consent for harvesting your data, though in other countries terms and conditions these crazy privacy clauses are not present. In the end the hardware is usually the same so I don’t trust that it can’t happen elsewhere but it’d be nice if governments made laws for the good of the people and not for corporate greed. EU seems to be doing things right but others aren’t able to easily follow their lead.

[–] Denatured@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Much obliged for your clarification. I understand this better now.