Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations and your face (in your private vehicle) and sell that data to the highest bidder. Any bets on other car companies privacy policies?
Posted by freedomforall 3 months, 4 weeks ago to Technology
Excerpt:
"People say things in a car they might never write in an email. Well, they used to.
Who knew? The Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations and your face and sell that data to the highest bidder. Most likely (who reads these things) all the other car companies do too. When an AI analyzes it, presumably it will identify your voice (and you from the cameras). Anything you say in the public broadcasting world of private cars will belong to them, even if you are a passenger, and were never asked.
So if you want to have a private discussion about your political views, your children, your religion, troubles at work, intellectual property, discoveries, information that might affect stock prices, your thoughts on immigration, corruption, or mention any medical issues you have, or affairs anyone you know has had, don’t do it in an electric car. Imagine the blackmail, political, legal and insider potential with this data in the hands of…"
"People say things in a car they might never write in an email. Well, they used to.
Who knew? The Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations and your face and sell that data to the highest bidder. Most likely (who reads these things) all the other car companies do too. When an AI analyzes it, presumably it will identify your voice (and you from the cameras). Anything you say in the public broadcasting world of private cars will belong to them, even if you are a passenger, and were never asked.
So if you want to have a private discussion about your political views, your children, your religion, troubles at work, intellectual property, discoveries, information that might affect stock prices, your thoughts on immigration, corruption, or mention any medical issues you have, or affairs anyone you know has had, don’t do it in an electric car. Imagine the blackmail, political, legal and insider potential with this data in the hands of…"
Apart from that, if you go to-
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/pri...
Scroll down about 5 screens, there is a table:
..Fewest privacy invasions- Citroen, Dacia.
..Next- a group of six manufacturers including Subaru.
..Then a group of 16 who are worse.
..Tesla- at the bottom, worst.
I guess Mazda was too small to include in the review?
D.C. has destroyed the auto business. They deserve to have their 'business' destroyed in return.