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https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

Looks like Ford just voted to NOT be my choice of car vendor in future.

However getting this patent could be used by Ford to prevent such systems from beeing used by all vendors, but thats veery unlikely i guess.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has some serious "idiocracy" vibes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, it's just a lawyer with no active cases looking for a bonus.