wow, ok. fuck privacy when it comes to cash, right?
Sounds like the states privacy laws might be dogshit…
recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.
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Its damn hard to prove injury without discovery…
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Privacy is becoming a luxury
You want privacy, pay us, and we’ll still collect and save the data tho.
Why are cars even getting text messages in the first place?
The idea is the car reads your texts to you via TTS so it’s less tempting to look at your phone while driving.
Oh wow that’s fucked that cars can monitor that now
Only if you give the car permission. My phone (Android) has a popup when I connect to a car, asking if I want to give permission to read my text messages. I usually answer no.
No doubt iPhones have something similar.
I just turn the phone on silent. In fact silent is the default mode. To many spammers. There is nothing important enough in my life that requires immediate attention. Might change if I find a woman and get kids but not likely.
I wonder if this interacts with Android Auto. AA essentially uses your car’s speakers and screen as peripherals for your phone, so hopefully it’s sandboxed out of the car’s systems (except then it’s Google reading your messages).
I’ll bet this is not as cut and dry as the headline makes it sound.
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