11 pointsby benkan10 hours ago4 comments
  • akimbostrawman7 hours ago
    Its not subscriptions doing the surveillance but mandatory (legal or technical) black boxes built into the car...
    • fwn5 hours ago
      Yeah, any tracking expands the surface for surveillance, whether it's for subscriptions or for safety.

      Market incentives make subscription tracking likely to become more and more all-encompassing, though. (like with "Smart"-TVs) That's a dynamic absent from safety tracking.

      OTOH, safety tracking is politically much harder to push back against because it's framed as a protection or safety feature. ... hard to tackle if it's there by law in some global juristictions.

  • PeterStuer3 hours ago
    Don't the subscriptions just allow you to also access/use the data already collected (and sold) anyways?
  • jqpabc1235 hours ago
    I smell a business opportunity for someone to design little Faraday cages that fit over the "shark fin" antennas on roofs of cars.
  • dlachausse5 hours ago
    This ship sailed when everyone started carrying internet connected smart GPS devices in their pockets. Even before that cell phone tower triangulation has been a thing. I agree that it would be nice if our cars didn’t track us, but this is small potatoes.