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How To Opt Out Of Your Car’s Surveillance State (Before It’s Too Late) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Modern cars are spy hubs on wheels, tracking your location, conversations, and behavior.

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It is very funny that this article seems to be under the impression that opting out does anything at all.

Oooooo, maybe now they don't save your data under your legal ID directly. One time connection with your phone and they know your fingerprint that is already linked with an identity lol.

Opt-out is the biggest lie in the tech world.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    My job has a big marketing department, and I'm part of it.

    Opting out does opt you out of a few things, like marketing emails.

    But we definitely always still store your data. So yeah, it's a pretty big lie and all very legal unfortunately. It's sucks.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    all very legal unfortunately

    Not in the EU.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Too bad most mega corporations are based in the US so they will take the risk of a slap on the wrist from a foreign entity to keep valuable advertising data for millions of people in a different country outside of their jurisdiction.

    Those regulations discourage small companies doing those bad practices, they aren't proportional to revenue so are just the cost of doing business for almost trillion euro companies.

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