Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face

Patently false. The rule says nothing about how the ADDW system must function. All the sites claiming that a camera is even required are completely making shit up.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2144/oj/eng

It is merely defined as:

‘advanced emergency braking system’ means a system which can automatically detect a potential collision and activate the vehicle braking system to decelerate the vehicle with the purpose of avoiding or mitigating a collision;

It's up to each individual manufacturer to design a system that fulfills that purpose, however they feel like doing it.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

The one saving grace here is that the 100 mile zone only applies to federal authorities... so a local police agency still needs a warrant to track you.

I still don't understand how 'bridging' isn't 'bindings'.

someone who has no idea how networking and security works

Is this not the exact same Cambridge Analytica? Wikipedia seems to say this is their domain.

This does not restrict commercial data collection.

Does it apply to governments who have acquired commercial data collections? What if the government asks a company to search for someone but aren't given the entire history?

IMO history isn't relevant here though because I specifically quantified my statement with "at this moment in time" since I knew I would get a response like this.

you misspelled yggdrasil

that's an awfully high horse you're up on, son

is this vibe-coded

"theoretically" is doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting here... tracking specific identifiable people in this manner (especially when multiple people are present) is about as close to sci-fi as we can get at this moment in time.

It's not that hard really... application-level firewall, only allow the apps you actually use. Or you could block all access from your router except to a proxy, and then configure just the apps you use to use the proxy. Eliminates 99.9% of unwanted outbound traffic.

Many other OSes, distros and apps phone home/have telemetry too (yes even Linux ones), it's not like this is some egregious behavior nobody else does.