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That was a very scary and dystopian read, but thank you!
Honestly, I figured that they collected data. But I didn't think the extent of it would be stuff like my sex life and genetic data. How the hell do those work?
They track you and then different kind of tools are trying to profile you based on your data. Similarly how ads work on the internet. Saying your car collect data of your sex life more like means they collect absolutely everything about you and then they run it through different software to profile you then sell all this data for extra profit. If you daily drive to a school they will assume you have a family and kids. If you go to a random apartment complex once a week after your kids went sleep they will assume you have a mistress. Its all based on location data and the stuff you enetered during registration.
They can also track who your devices are near. If your phone sits next to someone else's in an office building for nearly 8 hours a day and they know that persons job they can infer yours, especially since departments tend to sit together. Ad companies often assume recurring groups of people share overlapping interests (hence why their together multiple times) and will push out ads based on what other people around you are interested in to see if you are too.
Interesting. Makes a lot of sense, though it sucks that it's all based on assumptions because it sounds like it can easily be mistaken for a lot of things.
That's how most of them work. I got baby toys for a friend's baby and the Internet started trying to sell me all kinds of baby things. You listen to a lot of podcasts about craft beer? They assume you're a 40 year old white dude who needs beard oil.
I'm betting the sex tracking is more about the pressure sensors in the seats for the seatbelt warning system.
I’m guessing if you talk about that stuff in your car, it send that data home.
Oh that makes more sense.
My mind went to a completely different approach, collecting your data when you fuck someone in the car. Length of sex, moaning volume and pumps per minutes is what I was thinking of.
Hahaha I like that idea better.
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Holy cow.
And nobody can jailbreak and disable these "features"?
You can jailbreak it by not telling the employees at the car dealership about your sex life. People at the company are allowed to collect your information and record it. The cars don't collect anything about ethnicity, sex, etc. They do collect driving data.
When you take your car in to be serviced, Nissan employees can jot down that you were a white, male or such. Then if someone looks to purchase said information, Nissan will sell it to them.
There isn't some super secret hidden agenda people seem to think there is. The agenda is as it always has been. Build the cheapest item that we can sell to the most people legally. They make things "nice" to the cheapest extent possible based around figuring out how much people actually care about things. If 95% of populous would choose a car without a stereo system and still be able to sell it at the same price they would. If they knew people would pay $500 to have that stereo system they would add it in the cheapest way possible. If they expect x% of people will buy it, Then they will find the way to install x% for the cheapest price. Might mean all of the cars come with the wires already ran in the vehicles and the speakers and receiver aren't there. Or could have all the speakers if the % is high and just the faceplate is removed. They don't give a fuck about you. They never will. You aren't money, just 1 source to get it from. Their job is to get you to hand them that money, and then keep you on a leash in the corner to milk more money out of you until eventually they can sell you another product.
The narrative on lemmy is to trust Mozilla, we shouldn't. They are human, and therefore will write an article saying whatever they want to garner attention and get paid for said article. A company is an investment. Even if one is a non-profit or a charity, people have invested time and money into it. Whether you think sunk cost or just that someone won't have a job the next day. They are human. Their next meal is more important than the feelings of people they don't know.