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Re:Right to Root Access by lapcat on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:47PM (#42679535)
> On that note, even if someone stole your car, at least your car does not have access to your bank account, your passwords, your messages, and even your sexual history. The personal and reputational cost of losing a car is not comparable.

You're conflating vendor lockdown with device encryption. The latter does not require the former.

Re:Right to Root Access by eesmith on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:46AM (#42681738)
While cars don't have access to your complete sexual history, note that https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-... points out:

"The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how. They say they can share and sell consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties."