• tal@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Setting aside questions of legality, it seems kind of like it wouldn’t encourage someone to purchase their cars.

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      1 year ago

      Not a problem! Jack used car prices up to new cars, prevent public infrastructure and provide benefits for cars, all car manufacturers have similar privacy policies. Combine all three and you have customers that need a car to live, might as well get a new one if decade old ones are the same price or have no stock, and suddenly there isn’t much choice.

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      That only helps when there’s viable alternatives. Since pretty much all auto manufacturers do something like this it’s not really a distinguishing feature.

      And even if it was: how much worse/more expensive would a car need to be for you to not pick it over one that reads your text messages. And then ask the same question not for “you”, but for the average consumer. Then be sad …

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but the vast majority of car buyers won’t know about this or care. We’re all privacy advocates here but everyone and their mother is on Facebook or Instagram and is happily giving away all their information already anyway.

      We’re all up in arms about this here in this thread, located in a self-selecting micro-community of people with an inherent interest in the control of our data. If you called your mother and told her about this would it stop her from buying a new car in the future?