Re:Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars
by lmkg on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:14PM
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Death is just an "emotionally loaded topic"? I think it's perfectly reasonable to have principles, but value those principles less than human life. In fact, I wish more people did that.
There are plenty of cases where we can and do make exceptions to personal privacy for public benefit, under certain guidelines. E.g. medical data is one of the few things that's actually private by law in the US, but we still find way to make aggregate data available for epidemiological studies. Location data is absolutely sensitive data, but there are valid reasons to make subsets of it available for the public benefit.
>But given the number of vehicular deaths...
Ah the good 'ol "my principals go out the window when $emotionally_loaded_topic is involved."
Nobody, not the insurance company, the DMV, nor the people debugging the software in prod deserves access to ones data without express and informed (i.e. not a million word eula nobody reads) consent. It's no different than data generated by a cell phone or smart blender
Anyone worried about safety can find an external way to monitor that.