I live in a small, rural community. The county sheriff's department just announced how they bought the GPS tracking data for every vehicle in the county and how it's going to "help calm traffic because they can predict where people are going to be speeding and can have an officer waiting"

The pre-crime department is starting and no one batted an eye.

Hmm. Is there a faraday vinyl I can wrap my car in?

Or just pull the fuse to the antenna?

Basically I'm saying wrap your car in tinfoil

and don't ever let diagnostic tools with network access be connected to it. just as well could say never bring it to service, which is not really possible

If they are, make a complaint to your local governing body. See if they'll investigate it. Because it's not okay for them to agree to terms for you or to try to end around the agreement you made.

Sounds like you could start a lawsuit!

Negligence. Volkwagen can afford competence, but chose not to invest in it.

From what a gathered, it was the classic misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket. It's criminal how AWS still makes the default configuration insecure.

Edit: apparently buckets are private by default now, haven't set up S3 in a while.

I think they just don't know. People are oversaturated and oversaturated and overloaded, and suffering for scraps, nobody has time, mental space or money to be choosy. Researching companies, suspiciously doesn't show results. Finding that information isn't easy, by design. It might be released, on the same day something else happens. But mostly people aren't watching the news to the depth required to soak that stuff in, and don't have the extra energy to soak anything in. Everything sent into our hands and eyes as news is controlled by a few with vested inrests. It would be lovely if there was a place that collected atrocities and kept them fresh. Who stopped buying nestle after all the horrible things they've done. I can bet you have supported a company with your dollar, that's responsible for huge atrocities, it's almost impossible to avoid. Look at the stuff happening in the Congo atm, all the top brands, committing atrocities for new phones to be built. How much have we heard about all of that? There's so much. Where do you start. Funny story, I watched resident evil with my kid, just recently, and it was terrifying for whole new reasons. A top company who owns everything, goes into weapon manufacturing and creating advanced bio weapons, accidentally releases it, then doubles down continuously, shutting thousands in to die, and firing into crouds to cover up what it did. And that doesn't seem far fetched, any more. All for the ever expansion of money, something that has a finite amount set. Literally the only way to achieve ever expansion is to commit atrocities, there's a point where you take too much and the only option is atrocities to make more. And that's capitalism, baby!!

Dacia doesn't have that crap. They only have the mandatory SOS system.

BTW, if someone has a way to rip that system out, please share

The republicans are on it in the US, but now they call them drag shows.

Wouldn't that just be a time based notification rather then dependent on any privacy invading metrics?