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ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Senators Expose Car Companies’ Terrible Data Privacy Practices.

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ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week, Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the FTC to investigate several car companies caught selling and sharing customer information without clear consent. Alongside details previously gathered from reporting by The New York Times, the...
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  • Schwim Dandy@lemm.ee
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    The senators were not the ones that exposed anything.

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      Yeah, I saw a report that Mozilla published on this last year: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

      Either way, it’s still good that some senators are getting involved and putting some pressure on them.

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    … and they’re passing a bill to revoke car companies access to data and make collecting and sharing data illegal and add steep fines if any are found to collect it in the first place, right? Right?

    Come on, these are the people at can do something about it, but they’re just going to be paid off and nothing will change.

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    The “get shared and with whom” link in that article has “how to opt out” information.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-your-car-knows-about-you-and-opt-out-sharing-when-you-can

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