Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data
Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating multiple car manufacturing companies after reports that they have secretly collected driver data and sold it to third parties.
Mozilla did a great job listing all of the privacy violations by category and manufacturer.
Investigating it so he can start selling Texans data as well I assume.
Nah so he can prosecute people crossing state lines for abortion
I'm glad I have a dumb car! It gets me where I need to go and doesnt log my every move.
Same, I love my 2002 Subaru. The most high tech thing in it is my bt stereo I installed that only connects to my phone. Everything I could possibly need in a smart car is Google Maps, which is on my phone, and a simple music forward/backward/pause for Bluetooth. Nothing more!
Something something broken clock. Absolutely fuck Ken Paxton, but this is the right thing to do.
He's not going to find anything but some extra money in his bank account, and then the corpros will point to the "investigation" for a decade.
I'm so not surprised
I'm surprised it's going down in Texas
Texas Attorney General is jealous that companies were able to buy it and he didn't even know it was for sale.
The average car is about to get a lot older till this crap is regulated out of existence
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SAN ANTONIO – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating multiple car manufacturing companies after reports that they have secretly collected driver data and sold it to third parties.
Paxton’s office said the reports noted that massive amounts of data were sold to insurance providers.
“The technology in modern vehicles enables manufacturers to collect millions of data points about the people driving them,” Paxton said.
“Recently, consumers have grown extremely concerned that their driving data is being reported to their insurance company without their knowledge or authorization.
These reports of the invasive and unmitigated collection and sale of data without consumer consent are disturbing, and they merit a thorough investigation and appropriate enforcement.”
Paxton’s office said the manufacturers and third parties were instructed to show records relevant to their conduct.
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He'll probably just get bribed and give up
Bad people can occasionally do good things, tbh. But it doesn’t make them good people.