Tag: Surveillance Economy

Surveyed drivers prefer low-tech cars over data-sharing ones • The Register

Despite all the buzz around internet-connected smart cars at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, most folks don’t want vehicle manufacturers sharing their personal data with third parties – and even say they’d consider buying an older or dumber car to protect their privacy and security.

Source: Surveyed drivers prefer low-tech cars over data-sharing ones • The Register

It doesn’t matter. Like with TV’s and appliances, going forward, you simply won’t be able to buy a product without privacy-invading spyware pre-installed. Eventually, it will be in them all. So we’ll wind up with things like this, in everything:

I guess the machine was hashing bitcoin? I don’t know.

In this vein, there was another post/comment that I read about how the guy blocked a device from getting to the internet in the wifi router, and the manufacturer actually noticed, contacted him, and told him that he had voided his warranty! Stupid and scary.