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
Time to make data sharing illegal. If it is technically needed, the industry needs to have a written contract with the user, which describes in detail which data is shared. It must be a separate contract from anything else, and one each for each industry partner.
In the owner’s manual, it says you consent to data collection by driving the car and if you don’t consent, you should return the car to the nearest dealer.
Fuck them and the horse they rode on. Stuff like that needs to be made illegal.
That’s the Terms and Conditions that nobody reads.
I’m not talking about a “one click for everything”. I’m talking about a separate, written contract that can be cancelled at any time, without cause for any other obligation.
The t&c are not a separate contract, though. Its a “take it or leave it” signing here gets you the car and the agreement to be spied upon.
I read them all now with Chatgpt. Just fed it in and summarize
Notarized. The agreements need to be notarized.
And you have to be able to cancel it at any time.
Why
“T&Cs update : please agree to 80 pages of impenetrable legal jargon before you can continue to use your vehicle”
That’s why I say it must be a written, separate contract. And not signing it must be without consequences regarding other contractual obligations.
Hahaha welcome to the eu