“Privacy researchers at the Mozilla Foundation in September warned in a report that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare,” noting that 92 percent give car owners little to no control over the data they collect, and 84 percent reserve the right to sell or share your information. (Subaru tells WIRED that it “does not sell location data.”)”

Such a statement about not selling data can be very misleading, because the essential statement of saying “we do not share your location data” does not seem to have been made! Please, let us stop falling for the trick of companies saying that they do not sell our data as somehow equating to them respecting our privacy, because it is not an equivalence.

“While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the Internet might be [are] spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines,” Mozilla’s report reads.

“People are being tracked in ways that they have no idea are happening.”

https://archive.is/9dIdu

“the minute you hook up your phone to Bluetooth, it automatically downloads all the information off your phone, which is sent back to the vehicle manufacturer.”

“if you want to protect the data on your phone, don’t connect it to the car.”

What might motivate someone to move away from using Discord?

https://archive.today/1Lfct “Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH”