mrmisses comments on Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.

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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

From what OP posted of the article why do you think it is Chinese companies doing this when it's clearly american. We live in the shit hole you have been made to believe China is

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Y'all do know you're allowed to open and read the article, yeah?

The top recipients of driver data included many of the largest tech companies operating in the U.S., including Alphabet (which runs Google), Amazon, Meta (which runs Facebook), Microsoft, Pinterest, and Reddit, among dozens of others. Many of these companies play two roles in the driver data ecosystem, as both providers of software (such as the Android Automotive operating system) and as operators of advertising “auction” platforms that marketers use to target specific types of customers. As such, the companies that collect driver data are often the first node in a vast personal data ecosystem.

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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

My point was the person I was talking to didn't even need to do that to know this isn't a Chinese problem

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