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filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

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‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

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Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare”
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All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
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    Nissan tracking your sexual activity is absolutely the weirdest privacy violation I’ve ever seen or heard of

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      Now I’m just curious what data they’re collecting and how. Like are they seeing if I’m getting down in the back seat or getting road head on the highway, or are they pulling this info off a connected phone?

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        … Because I log every sexual encounter in my calendar ofc.

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          Tuesday : backseat boobie

          Wednesday : stickshift sniffy

          Thursday : glovebox bollox

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            How can you skip Fornicate Friday? Slammin’ Saturday and Sunday Funday?

            Also. Fuck Mondays.

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            Sounds like a healthy week

        • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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          Sweet weekly love

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            and you know when i’m down to just my socks, what time it is

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        Possibly the Bluetooth/WiFi connection with your phone? That’s all I can think of.

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        I don’t think they’re intentionally collecting sexual activity. Moreso that they might incidentally, via your phone app.

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        Chief, next year we need less sports cars more minivans

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      They also want you genetic material. I wonder why.

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        Clones.

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          Nissan

          New Son

          Oh my god

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        They don’t, but their lawyers made them put that in after other companies have been successfully sued for violating biometric privacy laws. They’re casting as wide a net as possible in regards to users forfeiting their rights to their biomimetic information to make it impossible for users to win future lawsuits.

        So now they’re covered if someone tries to sue after their cheating is exposed, or their sexual preferences, or their genetic disability, etc.

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          Aren’t they already violating biometric privacy laws by unnecessary permissions? At least GDPR says company should not ask for things that are unnecessary for providing service.

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            EU

            Edit: … I’m assuming I put my phone in my pocket before finishing this comment and accidentally hit send. I have no idea what I was trying to say.

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        It’s for their upcoming line of Combine harvesters.

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          Don’t drink the water, it makes you forget

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      Excuse me, sir, but… what?

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        https://youtu.be/OYcmF9IAJbU

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/OYcmF9IAJbU

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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          well that doesn’t really answer the question “what is information on sexual activity and how would fucking car has it”… unless there is some indoor camera whose videos nissan secretly uploads.

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            Nissan is the biggest pornhub partner

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      Also Kia. What are the odds that two car companies would think of something like this?

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      The suspension team is led by a perfectionist.

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      That’s super weird

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