Merkley introduces 'Car Privacy Rights Act' in bid to protect drivers' data
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley announced Thursday the introduction of new legislation to protect consumers’ privacy from companies who collect and sell Americans’ car data. Currently, he said, there is a troubling trend of collecting, storing, and selling data from Americans’ vehicles – largely without drivers’ knowledge. Recent reporting has even documented automakers selling the
  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    If I’m forced to use these things I’d at least like to have my conversations and yelling at other drivers be private

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Just because cars are a problem doesn’t mean we should turn them into a tool of the police state.

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
    724·
    3 months ago

    I’d actually not mind them getting monitored for breaches of the highway code, or investigation of homicides/crashes, stuff like that.

    When you take dangerous things into public, there should be some accountability.

    Not that I think that’s what the telemetry is intended for.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      Yea, this is more shit like noticing you slowed down on an open road and adjusting up your insurance rate by 12 cents annually. It has a carve out for NHTSA which could still use the data to hand out speeding tickets automatically if they so chose.

      It also prevents you from being blasted with an ad telling you to take the next left for half off cheeseburgers after leaving your office at 11:45. I don’t drive so it doesn’t effect me but targeted advertising can get fucked in all its forms.

    • Rixonomic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Even monitoring for traffic violation or bad driving is questionable. How are they going to differentiate between bad driving because you weren’t paying attention, and “bad” driving because someone cut you off and you had to take evasive action.

      Like, maybe just leave me alone and stop trying to collect every bit of data possible on how I live my life. I don’t trust them to correctly interpret anything they collect.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        This is the big reason data collection is bad. People already lose their insurance over having to make an emergency maneuver. See: The LexisNexus debacle

        If drivers are afraid to perform emergency maneuvers because they don’t want to increase their insurance rates, that makes it more dangerous overall, and will increase the chance of a MVA.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      You could just go to the nearest police department and ask them to put a bracelet on you 😀😉. Better than a telemetry butt plug.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      I personally think speed cameras and red light cameras would be better ways of achieving driver accountability.

    • greenskye@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Hell. Maybe only after self-driving cars become standard, you can monitor anyone driving for ‘fun’. Otherwise, in America driving isn’t really a privilege like they like to tell you, it’s something we’re all forced to do to merely survive (try getting a job without a car in suburban hell with no public transportation infrastructure).

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I think about this all the time. I’ve watched a few high speed chase videos and it is absurd that someone can make just about any car go double highway speeds. These people often even drive in oncoming traffic, bike lanes, and sidewalks. It does seem a little ridiculous to give everyone that kind of potential destructive power.