Dan YorkMar 4, 2023

Are there ANY car manufacturers NOT selling data about you / your car?

Reading @pluralistic 's Feb 28 piece about VW tracking cars (and not providing the info unless you pay): https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/28/kinderwagen/

Cory Doctorow writes:
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> And yet, here we are. Like most (all?) major car makers, Volkswagen has filled its vehicles with surveillance gear, and has a hot side-hustle as a funnel for the data-brokerage industry.
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Is anyone keeping a list of car manufacturers who are NOT doing this?

Pluralistic: VW wouldn’t locate kidnapped child because his mother didn’t pay for find-my-car subscription (28 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadAnton Piatek
@danyork @pluralistic wonder how that is compliant with UK data protection laws or EU gdpr where you can request all data a company holds about you
Mar 4, 2023 at 3:03pmTusky
Show threadDan YorkMar 4, 2023
@sldrant @pluralistic Probably not at all compliant… but here in the USA we have no such privacy protections, and our US Congress has shown close to zero interest in doing so.
Show threadAnton PiatekMar 4, 2023
@danyork @pluralistic yes, outside of California I've heard of no interest in privacy like that. I wonder if the data collection on cars is different in the US vs EU too. My Nissan collects data, and makes me agree every time I start it, but I confess I have little idea what data is collected or how it is used
Show threadPlatonidesMar 5, 2023

@danyork @sldrant @pluralistic
A European company is still subject to the GDPR even if acting on a foreign country.

Maybe they use a US subsidiary to claim it is not subject to that?