The EULA for my Honda says that Honda can and will share all available data with itself and third parties, named and unnamed, for any or no reason.
0 tracking by the manufacturer. No subscription services needed. No annoying beeping when you forget to put on your seatbelt for 10 seconds. No touchscreen, all physical buttons. No Android/Apple spyware. No cameras. No ads on any display. No car-key that can run out of battery.
It's nice.
Literally anything is better than sitting and solemnly spelling out what "will" and "must" be.
It's 100% allowed within the EU, even for OEM licences. There have been multiple court cases about this and microsoft lost every single one. But I guess that's not what you were implying?
Because of some adversarial legal precedent in a major market that would impair them more then the expected benefit.
Microsoft probably is moving away from selling permanent licenses partly due to this, for everything except those to large customers they can individually keep tabs on.
excuse is "games are art, not computer software Oracle vs Usedsoft doesn apply".
> "games are art, not computer software"
That's not the legal interpretation of the topic, no.
Being a prepper isn't extremist. (Yes, it's expensive, done right, but not necessarily extremist.)
[disclaimer: I live in Los Angeles]
That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.
It seems like you have a cognitive distortion to work out. Amplifying an anecdotal sample to classify all people with a shared interest as having other characteristics of your sample is understandable but also misguided.
You, 3 weeks ago.
~~~ Their's is a lot better, does still include Geolocation, audio recordings, navigation usage, however the usage looks limited to just Honda and the obviously required services: ~~~
> We will not use Geolocation Information for our own marketing purposes or disclose identifiable Geolocation Information with third parties (except our service providers) without your consent.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230512194748/https://www.honda...
EDIT: I just noticed the following:
> These companies may use Covered Information for their everyday business purposes, including marketing, customer service, fulfillment and related purposes. These disclosures may qualify as a sale under certain state privacy laws.
Also their definition of "Service Provider" is way too broad (see below comment). So I might need to retract my statement on their policy being good.
Satellite, traffic, and telecommunications companies; Roadside assistance vendors; Contact centers; Research and development vendors; Providers of software integrated into our vehicles and systems; Marketing and non-marketing communications, analytics, and consulting firms; Professional service firms such as attorneys and accountants; Day-to-day business operations vendors such as courier services, facilities management suppliers, and information technology and network support.
Although it's worth mentioning:
> These companies may use Covered Information for their everyday business purposes, including marketing, customer service, fulfillment and related purposes. These disclosures may qualify as a sale under certain state privacy laws.
So I might need to retract my statement on their policy being good.
As for law enforcement:
> We may use and disclose Covered Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate to respond to legal requests (including court orders, investigative demands and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of ourselves, consumers, or any other third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with law.
There's also that little qualifier "identifiable" in there. Companies usually take a very different stance on what constitutes "identifiable" than people think.
What that's really saying is that they will share the geolocation information with third parties without your consent, but they'll probably do a little handwavy "anonymization" thing on it first.
But… it’s just metadata. It can’t possibly be cross referenced, in bulk, with high accuracy, in 5 minutes, right? And even if it could, I bet there’s no money to be made selling people’s data, so there will never be any shadow industry that “brokers data” of regular uninteresting people, that’d be ridiculous!