"Your driving privacy expires with your current car’s lifespan"

[sycophantic@infosec.exchange]

@IanHill this is why when my old car dies I'm getting another old one

[usbtypesteve@infosec.exchange]

@IanHill defeated by electrical tape most likely

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@IanHill For the foreseeable future, the only cars worth buying will be the ones BEFORE this. And, IMO/IME the ones prior to late 00s.

Let's forget, for a moment, the ethics of mandatory spyware (both in software and hardware) in your car.

Every time you add a system, there are costs. Integration with other systems? Nearly double that cost. Integration with ALL critical systems? Ooph.

#cars #Surveillance #BigBrother #Enshittification

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@IanHill for the dumdums saying "hyuk hyuk, all you need to do is slap a piece of tape over the camera!!!"

...and then your car does not turn on. At all. "BigBroCam error, please take me to Stealership, for $thousands service!!" in your dash.

Brilliant.

[ianhill@infosec.exchange]

@faraiwe Coincidentally I am halfway through reading Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification".....

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@IanHill

The used car business will go like gangbusters.

[inspired@hachyderm.io]

@IanHill I have a family friend with a medical condition that causes slurred speech. She is regularly treated as if she is drunk. Surely some people have a similar situation with indicators that these systems monitor. Ok, don't buy a car newer than 2027, forever. What if she needs to rent one while on a trip?

[julianoe@mastodon.xyz]

@IanHill if saving lives was the real reason, there is a shit ton of corporate bullshit that would be forbidden and yet they are not. "Saving lives" as an excuse to implement surveillance tech in cars and vehicles is the equivalent of "fighting pedos" to implement dystopian surveillance on the internet. This dialectic is known and we should stop falling for that excuse brandished by people who want us harm.

[arisummerland@beige.party]

@IanHill this is unpleasant news! I've been thinking about getting a new EV truck. I guess I better pony up and get it this year?! (I guess I can email the manufacturer and ask them when they're going to comply with this rule). I don't drive that much; I'll drive my 2010 Honda until the wheels fall off. I would not want a car's AI telling me that I can't go run errands because I look tired.

[darcmoughty@infosec.exchange]

@IanHill the insult added to this injury is the almost complete lack of traffic enforcement out there. I'm seeing a pattern across the board on almost everything where technology is expected to handle things while people with authority have "bigger fish to fry", but those fish ain't getting fried, either.