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Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by perihelions »

PreInternet01 wrote: post #3

wHaT's uP With the cApiTaLizAtioN iN this TitLe? I've spent, like, several minutes of my life trying to figure this out, and... came up blank? The title is not copied from the PDF, where such issues would be rare but not unimaginable. I also couldn't find any articles linking to this PDF with this particular title. So... a misfiring accessibility solution? Solar rays directly going for the Shift key? (P.S. Yeah, I kn…

Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries.

Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries.

    Unlaw­ / Ful­ / Ly
    Dri­ / Vers
    Pri­ / Vate

Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by PreInternet01 »

perihelions wrote: post #13
PreInternet01 wrote: post #3

wHaT's uP With the cApiTaLizAtioN iN this TitLe? I've spent, like, several minutes of my life trying to figure this out, and... came up blank? The title is not copied from the PDF, where such issues would be rare but not unimaginable. I also couldn't find any articles linking to this PDF with this particular title. So... a misfiring accessibility solution? Solar rays directly going for the Shift key? (P.S. Yeah, I kn…

Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries. Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries. Unlaw­ / Ful­ / Ly Dri­ / Vers Pri­ / Vate

Well, I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that in "UnlawFulLy" the capitals don't represent pronunciation stress points? Those would look more like "uNlawfullY", right?

Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by client4 »

I've been frustrated by the ability to easily disable vehicle cellular systems. In older vehicles you could simply unplug the right cable and have it disabled. In newer vehicles I've found the cellular system to be integrated with other components -- making it impossible to disable without also getting a permanent check engine light.

Ideally I'd like some sort of CAM module that plugs in between the antenna system and the ECM that selectively drops telemetry packets.

Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by [deleted] »

PreInternet01 wrote: post #3

wHaT's uP With the cApiTaLizAtioN iN this TitLe? I've spent, like, several minutes of my life trying to figure this out, and... came up blank? The title is not copied from the PDF, where such issues would be rare but not unimaginable. I also couldn't find any articles linking to this PDF with this particular title. So... a misfiring accessibility solution? Solar rays directly going for the Shift key? (P.S. Yeah, I kn…

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Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by randcraw »

I can't imagine why this case should succeed if this same practice has long been tolerated by telcos or Facebook -- any company that provides no opt-out to collection and sale of personal info.

If Texas had real guts, they'd pass a law that clearly prohibits the collection and sale of personal info without explicit opt-in. But nooooooo...

Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by fmajid »

Paxton is a crook, but in this case he's fighting the good fight. Texas collected a $1.4B settlement from Meta for its facial-recognition scanning, and in this case the monetary damages to the victims are far worse in terms of higher insurance premiums.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/31/meta-to-pay-1-4bn-for-unau...

He should then go after the insurance companies who used this data next, and force them to disgorge the excess profits they made from the illegal use of data, preferably with triple penalties.

Re: Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

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Post by perihelions »

PreInternet01 wrote: post #15
perihelions wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries. Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries. Unlaw­ / Ful­ / Ly Dri­ / Vers Pri­ / Vate

Well, I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that in "UnlawFulLy" the capitals don't represent pronunciation stress points? Those would look more like "uNlawfullY", right?

Yes, but stress aside, the syllables still divide as "un-law-ful-ly". (At least I believe so and Claude also agrees; that's a quorum).
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