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Hiding? Modern vehicles straight up have cell modems and advertise it, look up Toyota Connected Services for example.
They aren't giving you an eSim for free.
for the amount of money they would profit just from selling that data to insurance companies is enough to cover a fucking esim.
also, i forgot that cars are free these days and not thousands of dollars.
Are you saying they have a secret program where they illegally take your data and sell it to insurance companies?
i am suggesting that doing so would be profitable.
i don't believe this would be illegal.
Selling tracking data from your customers without disclosing it would absolutely be illegal.
You'd go to jail if you did that in Europe, likely face a huge fine in certain US states too.
lol, you think the executives would go to jail? or the engineers?
guess what was illegal before the snowden leaks, guess what's legal now.
i don't want to suggest i know the specifics of the law, especially in countries i don't even live in, but to think it's an impossibility is pretty bewildering to me.
edit: also they disclose that shit, just in a very vague way to allow a wide interpretation of what was disclosed.
In EU this would be a massive GDPR breach and cost the company €20 million or 4% of the company's total worldwide annual turnover**
In Germany you face Up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine for transferring data to a third party you weren't authorized to share.
In France Collecting data by fraudulent, unfair, or unlawful means carries up to 5 years.
In California CCPA allows fines up to $7,500 per intentional violation (e.g per customer)
Firstly misleading disclosures are not valid under both GDPR & CCPA
GDPR - Consent must be "freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous"
CPRA definies "dark patterns" as a user interface designed to subvert or impair user autonomy, decision-making, or choice and states outright: agreement obtained through use of dark patterns does not constitute consent.
Secondly do you have any evidence of said disclosures?
Cell companies can give those out for free if they want to... What they offer to consumers is absolutely not the same as what they might offer to a car company at bulk rates. They could even have the car store data and wait for low usage times to upload, it would cost cell providers almost nothing
They might even leverage it to use up bandwidth so they don't have to sell to secondary carriers if they wanted to one day...
Are you saying they have a secret program where they illegally take your data and to pass this data around without your permission they have a secret bulk deal with telecoms peoviders
That's why they're taking the video.
So they are taking a video of you and in exchange giving you $10-50/month worth of data access?
Data doesn't cost that much.