Merkley introduces 'Car Privacy Rights Act' in bid to protect drivers' data - KTVZ
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley announced Thursday the introduction of new legislation to protect consumers’ privacy from companies who collect and sell Americans’ car data. Currently, he said, there is a troubling trend of collecting, storing, and selling data from Americans’ vehicles – largely without drivers’ knowledge. Recent reporting has even documented automakers selling the
  • @AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15•8 hours ago

    If I’m forced to use these things I’d at least like to have my conversations and yelling at other drivers be private

  • @oo1English
    -4•7 hours ago

    I’d actually not mind them getting monitored for breaches of the highway code, or investigation of homicides/crashes, stuff like that.

    When you take dangerous things into public, there should be some accountability.

    Not that I think that’s what the telemetry is intended for.

    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7•5 hours ago

      Yea, this is more shit like noticing you slowed down on an open road and adjusting up your insurance rate by 12 cents annually. It has a carve out for NHTSA which could still use the data to hand out speeding tickets automatically if they so chose.

      It also prevents you from near being blasting with an ad telling you to take the next left for half off cheeseburgers after leaving your office at 11:45. I don’t drive so it doesn’t effect me but targeted advertising can get fucked in all its forms.