TL;DR all modern cars are a privacy nightmare.
the luxury feel of an iconic Range Rover
Also car people are fucking weird.
Companies don’t stay domestic anymore to where they originated, and can be partially or fully sold off to foreign countries.
So any data given away is a risk with how ownership can suddenly change.
And then there’s questions of how good security is and whether the company hasn’t been breached so some foreign entity is sucking up all the data like the recent news of how Google Gemini hacked into three companies during testing.
Ideally this telemetry nonsense wouldn’t be a thing.
Not in Europe where they are required to ask for the permission to connect.
I’d be reluctant to trust everyone adheres to the rules
Europe has proven it’s not afraid to enforce them. And it’s waay better than living in a country that doesn’t even care.
That is true and it’s nice to see the EU show its teeth a bit more. But ultimately it’ll be a fine that doesn’t even cover the taxes these companies evade
Indeed. But still it makes costs of shady business higher. And you can’t be sure how high will the fine be, and if there will be assorted physical measures like a mass recall.
