lawsuit against car manufacturers for alleged violations of privacy

[johnmark]

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Money quote "Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic..."

Curious how much of our private data is sold by ford. Also curious if there are some reliable 3rd party hacks to intercept this data flow.

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[Gimme_my_MME]

Curious how much of our private data is sold by ford.

If they are, they are exceptionally bad at it. Have you seen their financials?

 

[Fremont Kid]

I understand the marketing and advertising potential. However, I value my privacy more than any potential good product deals that could be promoted to me. I will always vote to not allow any private information to be sold. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed, e.g. credit cards, banks, credit agencies, ad nauseum already sell data. So much that I want to prevent additional data avenues.

FYI, this is the only social media site I use, so no personal data through Facebook, the former Twitter, etc.

 

[Mach1E]

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Money quote "Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic..."

Curious how much of our private data is sold by ford. Also curious if there are some reliable 3rd party hacks to intercept this data flow.

It’s likely sold based on the terms and agreements section that we all “have fully read and agreed to.” ?

Personally I don’t really care if people sell my data to advertisers, unless they’re spam calling or texting me.

But if they just want to tailor ads to things they think I would be interested in based on my habits or demographics……. I don’t see an issue with that. If anything it’s a good thing.

 

[dj_stang]

My concern is the privacy features/toggles don’t seem reasonable based on the features they enable or disable. For example why is “Share Driving Data” (which includes accelerator pedal use, braking, and other juicy info for insurance companies) required to view charging status in FordPass?

There already is a “Share Vehicle Data” which charging data is supposed to fall under.

 

[CompilerBreak]

Selling the data probably offsets their cost to maintain the cellular connection the car has (and thus a lot of the app features). If so I'm mostly ok with that tradeoff, but they need to be direct about disclosing that.

 

[Mach1E]

Selling the data probably offsets their cost to maintain the cellular connection the car has (and thus a lot of the app features). If so I'm mostly ok with that tradeoff, but they need to be direct about disclosing that.

Fun fact-

Selling data is why smart TVs are so cheap.

 

[CompilerBreak]

Fun fact-

Selling data is why smart TVs are so cheap.

As much as I hate the ads, I have to give credit, Vizio in particular makes more off the ads than the actual TV's, that's just amazing.

 

[Logal727]

Too late I agreed to the T&C and am now at the rear of the Human CentiPad.

 

[Mach1E]

Too late I agreed to the T&C and am now at the rear of the Human CentiPad.

Maybe one of the best/worst South Park episodes. ?

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