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Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data (www.ksat.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Mozilla did a great job listing all of the privacy violations by category and manufacturer.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Investigating it so he can start selling Texans data as well I assume.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Nah so he can prosecute people crossing state lines for abortion

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm glad I have a dumb car! It gets me where I need to go and doesnt log my every move.

[+] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Im quite sure everyone else's dash cams are!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It’s kinda hard for them to collect data without an LTE or satellite data connection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They probably mean all the traffic cams and stuff and junk that tracks you. Oh and your phone, probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta switch to Linux phones and iPhones to minimize the risk on the phones side of things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Certainly not iphones tho, right??? Aren't they the biggest aggressor against privacy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

iPhones encrypt everything locally, as well as in iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime. No apps can access any data outside of data entered into the app itself without explicit user consent. They’ve repeatedly fought the FBI on creating backdoor access, and have yet to lose. They only collect anonymous user data for in-house engineering if the user chooses to opt-in. If you ask for your GDPR abstract of data from Apple, it will only include your name, billing address, and phone number. Apple is big on privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And you can find your lost phone even when it's off! Not that that negates all the other user data stuff. But you can't say big on privacy if you can't ever hide your phone from them. There's faraday cages I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They can’t find your phone. You can. It’s encrypted through your iCloud Apple ID. Find My iPhone is disabled by default. You have to enable it prior to losing it to find your iPhone on a map or remotely erase it. If you lose your phone and go to an Apple Store, all they can do to help you is show you how to log into iCloud to find it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Same, I love my 2002 Subaru. The most high tech thing in it is my bt stereo I installed that only connects to my phone. Everything I could possibly need in a smart car is Google Maps, which is on my phone, and a simple music forward/backward/pause for Bluetooth. Nothing more!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something something broken clock. Absolutely fuck Ken Paxton, but this is the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

He's not going to find anything but some extra money in his bank account, and then the corpros will point to the "investigation" for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm so not surprised

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised it's going down in Texas

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Texas Attorney General is jealous that companies were able to buy it and he didn't even know it was for sale.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

SAN ANTONIO – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating multiple car manufacturing companies after reports that they have secretly collected driver data and sold it to third parties.

Paxton’s office said the reports noted that massive amounts of data were sold to insurance providers.

“The technology in modern vehicles enables manufacturers to collect millions of data points about the people driving them,” Paxton said.

“Recently, consumers have grown extremely concerned that their driving data is being reported to their insurance company without their knowledge or authorization.

These reports of the invasive and unmitigated collection and sale of data without consumer consent are disturbing, and they merit a thorough investigation and appropriate enforcement.”

Paxton’s office said the manufacturers and third parties were instructed to show records relevant to their conduct.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The average car is about to get a lot older till this crap is regulated out of existence

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Bad people can occasionally do good things, tbh. But it doesn’t make them good people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He'll probably just get bribed and give up