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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by mattw2121 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:39PM (#38209976)
Big opportunity for one of the big car rental agencies to come out looking great by advertising their "privacy focus". They could advertise to customers that they promise/certify that any personal data is wiped between rentals. Sort of like all the cleanliness guarantees that came about right after Covid hit.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by someotherperson on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:44PM (#38210044)
They'll just monetize it behind a $19.99 fee. And then they still won't do it, leading to some data leak, for which they'll be fined $2,000,000 despite having profited about $30,000,000 from it.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by progman32 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:53PM (#38211881)
...and then lock the admin UI behind a password so you can't do it yourself :)
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by DANmode on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:15PM (#38210558)
Apple Car will be marketed out of both sides of their mouth, just like oh-so-private iOS devices are marketed today.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by simbolit on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:48PM (#38211041)
Why is everyone so sure Apple Car will be a thing?
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by lrvick on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:56PM (#38212577)
Because Apple likes money, and cars have high profit margins.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by simbolit on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:25PM (#38212847)
That is a good reason, but in and of itself, not a sufficient reason.

Chocolate has fantastic profit margins. No Apple chocolate. ... mhhhmm, apple chocolate, that sounds yummy.

A bit closer to home, fabbing microchips has great profit margins. Apple pays good money to TSMC.

Just because it's good money isn't enough reason, I am sorry.

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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by BryanBigs on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:33PM (#38213373)
Cars have very low profit margins. Last time I checked a few years ago, the gross margin on an average American car was 10-15%. This doesn't count finacing.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by simbolit on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:40PM (#38213434)
If that is true, an Apple car is very unlikely.
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by JohnFen on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:13PM (#38222357)
> They could advertise to customers that they promise/certify that any personal data is wiped between rentals.

I, for one, simply wouldn't believe any such claim. Too much deception has already happened for there to be any trust left.

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