Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Nobody pretends that BYD cars don’t do that. Plenty of articles get posts here trying to create a false impression that China is uniquely bad in this regard.
You can have data sovereignty by mandating as much, Chinese cars already are built to comply with regulations of their markets.
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Chinese companies must report to the Chinese party-state, and that includes sending data back to China collected also by cars. There is ample evidence for this. The Chinese government’s grip on its companies to ‘collaborate’ has even been growing stronger in recent years.
Literally any country can subpoea car manufacturers data. And the data simply would not be collected if regulations required it. This applies to every country.
What’s your deal with China? 98% of your posts seem to be any articles you can find that amount to “china bad”.
He’s a member of the China Bad Times Club https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060
Well, in USA private companies do that all the time too bcs of the grip of the two-party system on private companies, eg it seems authorities have seamless access to Ring cameras.
I think that sort of thing is a given and part of your regular country risk. In most big countries it’s just a question how much the gov runs companies or the other way around.
But regulation can help a lot.
Eg EU could mandate a physical switch for wireless data (ie manufacturer) in cars.
… or you know, even mandatory foss or you-own-the-product-you-buy laws.
So? China doesn’t control my insurance rates. If someone has to get my data then I’d rather it be them instead of Trumpistan.
The Chinese party-state seems to be having problems telling these manufacturers to stop underselling each other right now.
Not related to the current thread but I thought it was interesting.