Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by... by Retric on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:52AM (#37444767)

To be equivalent FB would need to be taking the photos themselves and then selling the data. I really can’t think of a good online equivalent. Google street view would be close except they blur peoples faces.

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Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by... by jtbayly on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:25AM (#37445117)

Shadow profiles are

- collected by FB

- without even the pretense of consent

- sold to the highest bidder

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Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by... by Retric on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:50AM (#37445382)

I’m a little more concerned about someone bugging my house than someone saving stuff sent to them.

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Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by... by tough on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:14AM (#37444988)

didnt they only start blurring on maps after european courts told them so?

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Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by... by hunter2_ on Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:21PM (#37447748)

I can see some level of equivalency:

An unsuspecting person (Alice) ends up with a shadow FB profile because someone (Bob) who actually created an account (therefore having an opportunity to read terms of service) decided to take a photo of Alice and send it to Facebook.

An unsuspecting person (Alice) ends up with Subaru having an audio recording of what they said because someone (Bob) who actually bought the car (therefore having an opportunity to read terms of service) decided to invite Alice into the car.

In both cases, the company receiving Alice's information would likely say that Alice should take issue with Bob's behavior, not the company's behavior, if they don't like the situation.

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