Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "why is my car collecting data on me?" video.

  1. Yes, all of this. Not only cars shouldn't be invading the privacy of owners and collecting all this personally identifiable data, car makers have shown repeatedly how incompetent they are at handling such data, repeatedly how incompetent they are at secure and private communications, repeatedly how they cannot manage to get a hold of qualified tech people to handle such things. There was all this worry over decades now about putting computers in all cars to collect all sorts of data but zero worries about actually making the whole thing secure. It's now a complete sh*tshow, and exactly because of old assumptions that no one would be able to have access to it... because the system was proprietary or some crap like that. They are working at security through obscurity in the best cases, and no security at all in most. Really, you'd have better chances handing over your data to Huawei's interns or something. The level of incompetence you see on random IoT companies is the same stuff that exists on car manufacturers. So their argument works against them in those two levels. First, that they shouldn't be collecting and monetizing that data in the first place, particularly when they didn't ask for permission to do so, and they deserve a privacy invasion lawsuit for it. Second, that it's their own responsibility for securing any data they collect, and if they are not, they deserve yet another lawsuit for it. We need people in regulatory bodies and courts that understand this at the blink of an eye, or else we'll continue having corporations and these alliance groups or lobbyists making these extremely disingenuous arguments that aim to fool uninformed politicians alone and only that. The fact that they write something this full of shit just shows how bad the situation already is.
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