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USA: Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)

submitted 1 year ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

I guess someone should've presented the following situations to the court: some CEO of a small-medium company driving his Toyota sends a very important message regarding work. Toyota also gets to read it and is immediately aware of how that'll affect stock price. Time to gamble on the market, baby!

Situation 2: some researcher driving his Honda sends several files regarding a secret new product to his boss. Honda also gets to access the files and the content of the message. "Oh look, Honda released my product before me!"

Situation 3: After using the snooped information for self profit, the automaker sells it to 3rd parties for further profit.