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stronglikedan 5 hours ago

I've been driving connected cars for a decade and I haven't felt sold out yet. What am I missing?

deathanatos 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

* Massachusetts' RMV AFAICT resells one's data, resulting in new car purchasers receiving a huge amount of fraud in their mail. It can be difficult to distinguish what is a legitimate correspondence from the dealership vs. what isn't, as the fraud mail does not clearly identify itself. (And in fact, that's the tell.)

* My Subaru runs ads for Sirius XM. (Ad, on the infotainment screen. While the car's in motion.) I did not pay for my car to run ads, obviously, and obviously that was never mentioned by the dealer, ever, before or after purchase.

wmf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tail risk. Only <1% of people get punished by their car's data. IMO that's still too much.

tencentshill 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you in the US? Currently if you are in the US and not native-born, you're at very direct risk. That data is how ICE builds their enforcement leads. It's still often wrong, so they might break down your door and arrest you at gunpoint anyways.

post_break 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your driving habits, and everyone around you are impacting car insurance for example.

criddell 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I bought a car earlier this year and it took about a week before I started getting car warranty junk mail for the new car.

cogogo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I always thought that is from companies that get their hands on registration data. Or I could be wrong and it is the dealer itself selling it on not the manufacturer.

Loughla 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Pretty sure it's registration data. Anything public is now used for junk. We transferred a piece of property this year and have been getting constant spam for realtors to sell it for us. We bought a used car from an individual and started getting spam for warranties once we registered it and got plates.

chaps 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you asking for articles that show how connected car data is being sold left and right?

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