Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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It's funny because they kind of brag about it.
So Massachusetts had a ballot initiative, question one, in 2020, where 75% of Bay Staters voted to force the cars to allow independent mechanics to fix the cars.
And their response was these scare ads where they're like, if you let strangers get at the data in your car, they'll murder you.
because there's so much data in your car.
Yeah.
Mozilla Labs 2023 did a roundup of all of the car's privacy policies and data acquisition.
And they said there is not one car they would recommend driving on the road.
that's being sold right now.
What compositions are you having?
Not that, but Nissan weirdly, so one of the things about surveillance data is they're all lying to each other.
They're like saying they can do things they can't do.
Nissan offers to sell data brokers facts about your sex life and the smells in your car, neither which I'm pretty confident neither which they know.
But they're just like, they're just like making stuff up that they'll sell.
Cause like, these are all like grifters, grifting other grifters.
So they're ripping each other off.
It's like billionaire on millionaire violence.
Okay.
The speaker in my car is not, no microphone is not probably not, but they are like, they are looking at things like all of your informatics, you know, like if you've got your, your like Google Android car or Apple car, like all of that stuff is being sucked up by the car.
And,
Even, and you know, like some cars, they're like, oh, if you want to use like the advanced features, like warm your car up from inside the house using the app, that's like five bucks a month.
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