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Why not all carmakers, forever?
I'm assuming you're referring to that Mozilla report, but it's never been clear to me even after reading it how these car companies collect data on your sex life of all things.
Cars have gps built in even if you don’t use the onboard navigation. For some odd reason you care goes to a particular club / establishment every Thursday and stays parked there for 2.75 to 3.5hrs each time. If I took all the data your car’s gps collected, I bet I could make some pretty good inferences about you. Even if they’re wrong but roughly accurate, I could still sell it.
Now imagine something associated with where you’re going suddenly becomes illegal or target activity. Now you’re on a cool new government list.
Heck let’s go one step further. The location you frequent gets associated with pro Israel or pro Palestine. And since all companies are perfectly with safeguarding data, somehow has a breach. Now a true wackadoodle has this and your home location. What could possibly go wrong here? All actions and dialogue around this topic have been perfectly mannered and civil . You might not even have a clue that your now associates with something to which you had no awareness or affiliation.
All of these scenarios go away if they didn’t harvest data.
I mean I know how data harvesting and fingerprinting works. I just don't see how sex life is going to be anywhere near accurate lol.