Re:Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars
by dominotw on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:11AM
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i am ok with cars collecting metrics about my car and improving safety. But I am not ok with car collecting info about my children.
Author( and you ) are conflating all of it and calling it "data". I have no idea which cars companies are collecting data about my children. Do you?
Spinning this into "they are coming for your children" is totally disgusting.
Even the line you quoted is dishonest
> And we know they have the ability to sell it to third parties they might choose. Indeed, Ford’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, has spoken in detail about the company’s plans to monetize car data.
Here is the exact quote
"We know what people make. How do we know that? It's because they borrow money from us. And when you ask somebody what they make, we know where they work, you know. We know if they're married. We know how long they've lived in their house because these are all on the credit applications. We've never ever been challenged on how we use that. And that's the leverage we got here with the data."
This has nothing to do with data collected by cars. Yes loan applications data should be regulated for privacy but that irrelevant to topic under discussion. Loan application data is not "car data".
Also,Jim Hackett did not mention anything about selling data yet putting those to lines together and using the word 'Indeed' sounds like monetize here means ford plans to sell( info about your children) to third parties. Infact its already might be illegal to sell that data [1].
Author( and you ) are conflating all of it and calling it "data". I have no idea which cars companies are collecting data about my children. Do you?
Spinning this into "they are coming for your children" is totally disgusting.
Even the line you quoted is dishonest
> And we know they have the ability to sell it to third parties they might choose. Indeed, Ford’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, has spoken in detail about the company’s plans to monetize car data.
Here is the exact quote
"We know what people make. How do we know that? It's because they borrow money from us. And when you ask somebody what they make, we know where they work, you know. We know if they're married. We know how long they've lived in their house because these are all on the credit applications. We've never ever been challenged on how we use that. And that's the leverage we got here with the data."
This has nothing to do with data collected by cars. Yes loan applications data should be regulated for privacy but that irrelevant to topic under discussion. Loan application data is not "car data".
Also,Jim Hackett did not mention anything about selling data yet putting those to lines together and using the word 'Indeed' sounds like monetize here means ford plans to sell( info about your children) to third parties. Infact its already might be illegal to sell that data [1].
Why so dishonest?
1. https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/privacy/yourrights/