You may be wondering why I'm salty about data privacy in cars all of the sudden:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.

@evacide
And we all know that the auto execs have this disabled in their own vehicles.

Someone needs to write a techno thriller about hacktivists surreptitiously reenabling this, collecting all that data on car execs and then using it to expose all their crimes, dox them, humiliate them, blackmail them into publicly supporting laws that ban all data collection from vehicles. It would be a great plotline for explaining to everyday people all the different ways such data is abused and can hurt them.

@Mikal @evacide the remake of Christine would be very interesting...
@Mikal @evacide an evil AI enabled rental car using the information it finds to discredit and kill its victims...
@Vonskinnback @Mikal @evacide
The novel "Gridiron" (1996) by Philip Kerr is a 1970’s disaster-movie genre thriller set in a new-build skyscraper. A building whose corporate owner's flagship supercomputer has pwned every electronic system in and around it, in order to kill off all of those pesky meat sacks.
@Mikal @evacide Nah, they don't even use the same cars.