What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out

Post by mhandley » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 12:05 PM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #29

steve_gh wrote: post #26

Most car makers are global - and sell heavily in European markets, which are covered by the GDPR. So I suspect that for these manufacturers, many brands will be GDPR compliant by default. That said: - Under what principle is data collected (Article 6) - What measures have they put in place to enable access to PI (Article 15) - How consent may be withdrawn (Article 7) - How consent may be obtained when a vehicle is so…

They have enough volume that there doesn't have to be much money involved per vehicle to make US specific versions.

Post by Epopeehief54 » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 12:31 PM UTC

Post by bookofjoe » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 12:54 PM UTC

tempguy9999 wrote: post #30

johnr2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people like you.... Your post comes across as an ad-hominem attack. I read the post you're replying to as a warning, nothing more.

Thank you for the perspective. I suppose it was ad hom. I can't take his post in any way constructively (if it was a warning what am I supposed to do about it? Does he think I'm so stupid I can't see the risk already?) and while I don't doubt it was an honest comment, despite my suggestion of trolling which I regret making, I seriously doubt the poster considered the damaging effect it has on general discourse - or d…

Post by onreact » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

Post by systemtest » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 1:34 PM UTC

Shivetya wrote: post #25

I haven't seen it mentioned, but as a Tesla owner one concern I had was that if I sold my car Tesla might not get around to wiping the information it had on me. Worse there were stories of people selling cars where the new owner was given CC numbers and more of the old owner. Nice coincidence with the article is I had a 2017 Volt. Great car, hated OnStar. First just trying to make them go away is nearly impossible an…