VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
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VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
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#3That could be a nail in the coffin to end VW, the EU GDPR is quite a sharp weapon.
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#4That could be a nail in the coffin to end VW, the EU GDPR is quite a sharp weapon.
I think even in the EU, VW group is "too big to fail".
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#5Why is nobody talking about the fact that this should not be possible? There is precisely zero reason for them to have this location data. Give the CEO one year of jail per person whose location was illegally tracked.
Re: VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
#6That could be a nail in the coffin to end VW, the EU GDPR is quite a sharp weapon.
The EU will play favorites. There will be a slap on the wrist. Some probation. Maybe a CEO or high level C* person will step down in disgrace with only a few hundred million in severance. Then everything will go back to normal.
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#7That could be a nail in the coffin to end VW, the EU GDPR is quite a sharp weapon.
I think even in the EU, VW group is "too big to fail".
Too big to fail and too much of it is state owned, either directly, or through government-owned retirement funds.
The government will investigate itself and find no wrongdoings, let's go after the journalists who committed the ultimate crime: Embarassing Officials.
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#8Why is nobody talking about the fact that this should not be possible? There is precisely zero reason for them to have this location data. Give the CEO one year of jail per person whose location was illegally tracked.
On the contrary it's relatively simple to understand how it got there trivially.
Most modern cars, especially ones that fit into more "luxury" brands have an app. That app gives you telemetry and location data for a price. It's rather convenient to be able to pre-condition your car, or figure out where you parked in a massive unlabeled parking lot, etc. This is all consented to, but regardless the data is tracked anyway via some GPS/cell system modern cars have. When you pay for it you get more stuff - anti-theft, better tracking, service tracking, etc.
It's a convenience. I'm not entirely comfortable with it but if you want a better-than-decent car made after 2016 you probably have it on-board and unless you rip the ECM out you're stuck with it. Personally, I'd rather pay BMW, for example, for anti-theft and tracking than pay OnStar or another service that is gonna stick me with a ridiculous contract and stuff my car with even more buttons.
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#9Find the guys who usually park at expensive family homes, but occasionally visit a known brothel, then blackmail them.
We all just let surveillance haplen to us, in fact we paid for most of it
Re: VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
#10Why is nobody talking about the fact that this should not be possible? There is precisely zero reason for them to have this location data. Give the CEO one year of jail per person whose location was illegally tracked.
On the contrary it's relatively simple to understand how it got there trivially. Most modern cars, especially ones that fit into more "luxury" brands have an app. That app gives you telemetry and location data for a price. It's rather convenient to be able to pre-condition your car, or figure out where you parked in a massive unlabeled parking lot, etc. This is all consented to, but regardless the data is tracked any…
Eh, "consented to" is rather weak when you are forced to hit the "I agree" button to be able to drive the car you bought. That and forced arbitration need to die posthaste.