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I hope jailbreaking and disabling this data collection becomes the norm in the future. It is obvious companies do not prioritize the security protecting our data.

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It's a matter of time before that is legislated away as an option. Drunk driver detection and remote disable for law enforcement and other rights-trampling "safety" features will be always-on, probably by law. If it's not those, always-on comms will be mandated to help go to a self-driving fleet. One way or another, they'll force us to have spyware cars.

yeah i've always thought self driving and autonomous car fleets would be a godsend to governments. One order and you can immobilize a street, neighborhood, city or whatever. I bet it's hard to escape oppression on foot.

Imagine it has the same functionality as Bait car.. and not allow the occupants to exit the car either.

Oh, and no more pulling people over when you can just make the car drive itself to the police!

Stop buying new cars, fix old ones instead. If they start preventing that too, I hope there's a mass revolt.

As someone who worked for one of the big Japanese auto manufacturers less than five years ago in Infotainment, in the exact domain of what this thread is talking about, I agree wholeheartedly. You all may or may not be surprised about the philosophy behind this. Your data is looked at as their data... In the company I worked for, this was all driven by a small sect of executives in Los Angeles.

This is one of the biggest reasons I left, as I couldn't agree on an ethical level with the decisions around customer privacy.

Luckily we are already seeing a market with jailbreaking Tesla firmware to have more control over this sort of thing.

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