> Interior images, exterior images, facial geometry, voice recordings,
This is an absolutely unbelievable level of privacy intrusion IMO. I 100% support very heavily fining this sort of behavior, otherwise it will continue to proliferate.
This is an absolutely unbelievable level of privacy intrusion IMO. I 100% support very heavily fining this sort of behavior, otherwise it will continue to proliferate.
Probably when a legislators private graphic videos with an escort or drug dealer or something more interesting gets leaked. Perhaps some government officials data is present in the leak as we speak. It might be harder to spot if not a personally owned vehicle or still cloud registered to a previous owner.
So what solution do you have that doesn’t involve regulation?
CHIPS Act of 2022 allocated money to support US semiconductor manufacturing. Right-to-repair laws have been gaining traction even though it can't benefit any large economic interest directly. Those are two recent examples off the top of my head that aren't a reflection of a government that "only want more control and restriction."
I get that politics is frustrating but this kind of blanket caricature just relieves people of the responsibility for engaging with specifics, and when people commit to it that actually covers and enables real corruption.
I wonder how that factors into this.
> Your Facial Geometric Features will only be stored on your vehicle.
> Vehicles equipped with Teammate use sensor and/or image data from the vehicle’s interior and exterior to evaluate the vehicle’s surroundings
Not only is this all by design, but in many countries, the "free mandate" - i.e. the notion that the politician can say A before the election and then do ~A after - is even legally codified. In theory, this is supposed to allow the elected representatives to apply their own judgment based on nuances of the moment instead of pandering to the mob. In practice, it means that your representative is free to pander to people other than those they "represent" while still claiming a public mandate based on the votes received.
They're just praying that one will be moderately less terrible than the alternative.
There's never an option to say, "No, none of these power-hungry psychos should get to make this set of decisions on my behalf."
We elect representatives at every level of government. In a country of 335,000,000 people a slow moving central government is a feature. If you really want to make a difference pay attention to your city council.
Note, by the way, that I'm not claiming that changes don't happen in this system. What I'm saying is that changes happen when the ruling class is convinced it's time for them, not when the populace as a whole is - and no amount of voting changes that.
The fewer people each representative represents, the closer it is to an actual democracy, which is why city councils etc generally work better (although they are still far from ideal and have the same fundamental problems I described). But the nature of modern politics weaves local issues into broader ones on higher levels, and what ought to be local politics increasingly becomes national.