General Motors banned from sharing customer location and behaviour

[DaveB]

Those sorts of people drive 50 year old fourbies. Ask me how I know

I pulled into a car wash in 2017 and this guy was high pressure washing the boot and rear seats.
Not suspect at all.

 

[Tazzieman]

I pulled into a car wash in 2017 and this guy was high pressure washing the boot and rear seats.
Not suspect at all.


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Some of us specced our Grenadiers with hose out interiors...

 

[ryket]

Call me old fashioned but I'm not too concerned about anyone knowing where I am or what I'm buying.

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." This is a new fashioned attitude though. Go back even 20 years and tell an average person that in the future almost everyone will carry a GPS tracker with them and have microphones installed in their house that listen to their private conversations. They would assume you were living in a totalitarian nightmare. The level of mass surveillance in our countries makes 1984 look quaint.

Back on topic, I would be extremely surprised if Ineos is getting live telemetry from our cars. There's no known telemetry module, I haven't signed a privacy policy letting them do that, and I don't think they're even interested in data as a company.

Apple/Google are getting your location if you use CarPlay/Android Auto, but you can't win 'em all and most of us have made our peace with that.