| ▲ | PowerElectronix 4 hours ago |
| Tough week for euros. Cars that record your face while driving and now apps snooping on communications. |
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| ▲ | artisinal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Perhaps in the future cars will not only record your face but also listen in for hate speech. Most cars have SOS and GPS modules so calling the police if someone in the car shouts a slur is just connecting some code together. |
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| ▲ | yubblegum 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why do you think this is only going to be in Europe? This will be the global norm modulo some astroid hitting earth or civilizational crash. The trajectory is crystal clear: access to information (AI), control over personal finance (CBDC), privacy of personal communications (handful of big tech MITM in everything), metered social interactions (today China, tomorrow the world over). | | |
| ▲ | spwa4 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Until the sun grows in a final blaze of glory and burns all Qurans at the same time for 100 million years? | |
| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You say that like it’s a bad fnord | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | i am interested in hearing why you think it is not god awful | |
| ▲ | RIMR 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, I get that these things are typically matters of opinion, but if you value things like freedom and privacy, these things are objectively bad. |
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| ▲ | logicchains 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Fortunately the US has not only freedom of speech in the constitution but also tens of millions of armed civilians that place a hard limit on how much control the government can have over people's speech. The only reason the Chinese government can achieve such control over speech is because it can disappear anyone who speaks against it. It doesn't even need guns; Nepalese youth managed to stop social media censorship there just by going to the political capital and threatening to beat the MPs to death. | | |
| ▲ | rwyinuse an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | America may have tens of millions of armed civilians, but I'm not convinced that so many of them care about freedom of speech, particularly when it comes to people who they disagree with. | |
| ▲ | niels8472 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | From the Chinese constitution: Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration. | | |
| ▲ | vondur an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hahah, that's also what the Constitution of the Soviet Union stated. Tell that to everyone that got sent to the Gulag's for speaking up. |
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| ▲ | fakedang an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Has the armed civilian population done anything to protect constitutional rights? Last time a section of them mobilized, it was to overthrow a rightfully elected government. | | |
| ▲ | xienze an hour ago | parent [-] | | They were unarmed and the government was and continues to be scared shitless of that "attempted overthrow" (with no weapons? Does anyone really believe that had any chance of succeeding?) to this very day. Seems to me like that Second Amendment thing could be very effective with a sufficiently motivated population. |
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| ▲ | greenleafone7 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think this should go one step further. If you don't praise the magnificence of your local EU politicians then your car's breaks will stop working and an electric shot will be administered to everyone presently in the car. That will satisfy EU-rocrats. The coming revolution will be well deserved I think. | | |
| ▲ | vrganj an hour ago | parent [-] | | Man, the paranoid ramblings every time the EU gets mentioned here really are something else... |
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| ▲ | Z0rp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Car could also become judge and executioner. Swift justice is just one curve away | | | |
| ▲ | neongod 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The car’s computer voice:
John Spartan you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code! | |
| ▲ | sam_lowry_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is called eCall, a fairly intrusive system built into even some motorcycles. | |
| ▲ | specproc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Danger, danger. Cannabis detected in the vehicle. | |
| ▲ | shevy-java 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, it is some kind of social control. People who conform, have more rights than those who reject fascism. |
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| ▲ | varispeed 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wait for mandated methane sensor in everyone's anus. |
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| ▲ | xienze an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hey, at least they can feel secure in the knowledge that they're not contributing to global warming by using AC and instead dropping dead by the thousands. |
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| ▲ | ndriscoll 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Didn't Biden's big infrastructure bill already mandate NHTSA to develop regulations to require driver monitoring sensors starting next year? Or was that provision cut or reverted? |
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| ▲ | vrganj 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Boy, do I have news for you: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-EDAD116... |
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| ▲ | mito88 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the children...
:) |
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| ▲ | andrepd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cars sold for the past years already record and transmit all your movements and telemetry, I'm sad to say. |
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| ▲ | honeycrispy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe they should pause on being such snobs towards American politics to take a long hard look at themselves. |
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| ▲ | mito88 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | sscaryterry 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Honestly, it is mostly a reaction to how society has evolved, for the worse. Rock and hard place. The worst thing I have to hide is knowledge about my intentions, none of which are bad/illegal/immoral. Scan away, I'd rather try to protect my children, other children from unscrupulous characters. |
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| ▲ | haywalk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > The worst thing I have to hide is knowledge about my intentions, none of which are bad/illegal/immoral. Correction: None of which are bad/illegal/immoral _right now_. The "I have nothing to hide" crowd will surely change their tune the moment any of their data starts to be used against them. | | |
| ▲ | sscaryterry 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is being used against me, but not my governments, by private enterprises :) |
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