The bizarre fact (or not) is that no country gives a flying fuck to force opt-in or at least force car companies with disclosure and an option to opt-out.
I bought my car 8 years ago, and I never signed on any data sharing.
When I wanted to update the satnav and enable some additional features (like there was supposed to be internet connection with wifi for passangers), then they hit me with eula. And it was very bad.
Needless to say, I never signed it, but I expect them to take everything anyway.
They also prefer if their cars aren’t being recalled every odd month.
They also have the highest fatal accident rate of any other brand of cars. Twice that of the industry average.
Yep, easy to die if you crash in a Tesla.
But apparently have no problem sending all their camera data etc to the CCP.
(They do have a pretty impressive EV line up.)
They would be sending all the data to a fascist regime anyway.
The bizarre fact (or not) is that no country gives a flying fuck to force opt-in or at least force car companies with disclosure and an option to opt-out.
I bought my car 8 years ago, and I never signed on any data sharing.
When I wanted to update the satnav and enable some additional features (like there was supposed to be internet connection with wifi for passangers), then they hit me with eula. And it was very bad.
Needless to say, I never signed it, but I expect them to take everything anyway.
Because that real action would solve the imaginary problem.
If I have to send my data to a fascist fuck, might as well do it from a car that doesn’t try to actively kill me every time I drive it.
I’d rather send it to the authoritarian regime not currently threatening to invade my country, thank you very much.
The way the US is going, China is rapidly becoming the preferred option to share data with. It’s not like you have a choice not to.