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Originally Posted by Kodos
Privacy should be considered a fundamental right. Stuff like this should be banned. First of all, the car companies should be forced to get your consent to track your data, instead of the current situation where you are defaulted into being tracked with few or no options to opt out. Second, if someone profits from your data, it should be the consumer who has consented to having their data tracked. The surveillance state has to be stopped.
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Yeah I am not sure that the concept of fundamental rights exist anymore but that is a topic for another thread.
I agree with what you are saying in general. My point is we as a society have gone too far down the road of consenting to having data collected and tracked to be shocked that the data that is collected and tracked is used against us and for profit. If you weren't able to read that Times story, the driver of the leased Chevy Bolt EV who had his rates jacked up was the owner of a software company. Without casting aspersions at this man, I will just say that I am confident that more than a few software companies are collecting and tracking data and then selling that information to companies like LexisNexis without their customer' explicit consent. At the very least, they are selling software to other companies to do the tracking and collecting.
I have seen no reason to expect that the companies won't share the data. They rarely suffer any consequences either legally or from the public in terms of their bottom line
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