Cameron MacLeod

Wow - @mozilla (who made the first web browser you or your parents ever used) studies privacy in software. Now that cars are basically just mobile computers, they looked in detail at their privacy controls, and said:

“It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy”

If you drive a car, it’s tracking every single possible thing it can access, and they’re probably selling that data. Yikes. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#mozilla #privacy #automobiles #cars

*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla Foundation
Sep 6, 2023 at 10:08amWeb
Show threadJim ParsonsSep 6, 2023

@c_9

Any guesses where all those corporate #privacy lawyers hired by Alphabet, #Google and #SidewalkLabs landed after the WaterfrontTO #smartcity shit-show ended? 🧐

I’ll give you 3 honks 🚘

#Toronto #Ontario
#TOpoli #ONpoli
#AI #ML #BigData
#EV #Automotive
#Enshitification
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Privacy

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla Foundation