Subaru states that by being a passenger, you are considered a user — and by being a user, you have consented to their privacy policy. Several car brands also note that it is a driver’s responsibility to tell passengers about the vehicle's privacy policies.

No way that holds up in court. But in what situation would that appear in court unless someone has money to burn?

The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how. They say they can share and sell consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.

What the actual fuck

I hate the world we’re building.

This is why if you buy a car, you should get a "dumb" car.

It's even trickier with EVs.

On the one hand you can charge your EV at home and no one knows about it.

On the other, you can't pay for a public charger with cash, there's always a trail. Cars have unique identifiers that are communicated to the charger when connected. Each time you charge in public they know exactly who are you and what car it is.

This is why I drive a 20 year old car.

Y’all just need to stop being selfish and think about the shareholders.

i wonder if snipping off your car's modem completely stops the flow of data. like sure, your car's CPU is still gathering that data but they have no way to retrieve it. unless you visit a dealership or authorized mechanic shop?

Here's some tips:

1. Sticking to this community's name, ditch the automobile all together and adopt a hybrid approach of cycling and public transit. Buy and/or build a good bike or e-bike and learn the local bus route and/or routes of any other public transit.

2. For those of us still stick in Der Orangenführer's fascist regime, stick to cars made before 2012. Some cars were going to high tech before this but it's bond to be outdated but check if it's still used.

Time for opensourcevehicles and opensourcetransit to become a thing. I'm one of many people interested in doing that. Anyone have spitball ideas on how to go about doing that?

Trying to think up some simpler first projects, how to get it funded, and how to get a community for that up and running

Also, some people were interested in making opensourcebusiness community. If anyone is still interested then please do it there was 7 people I remember that were interested at the time for that

We can also get opensourceanimation, opensourceuiux, and way more up and running. To slowly transform our world and get open source to grow even more

Edit: Would be cool for people to get community projects made for bikes, electric bikes, bike-cars, cars, VTOL's, and way more overtime. Trams, trolleys, trains, high speed rail, airplanes, submarines, airships, etc

Edit 2: Main focus being people-focused transit. Didn't realize I was in fuckcars. If we are going to have any transit might as well be open source especially EV's

got to love GDPR

The smartest chip in my 2001 VW Golf is the automatic climate control.