Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.
wow, ok. fuck privacy when it comes to cash, right?
Sounds like the states privacy laws might be dogshit...
recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.
Its damn hard to prove injury without discovery...
Privacy is becoming a luxury
Why are cars even getting text messages in the first place?
The idea is the car reads your texts to you via TTS so it's less tempting to look at your phone while driving.
I just turn the phone on silent. In fact silent is the default mode. To many spammers. There is nothing important enough in my life that requires immediate attention. Might change if I find a woman and get kids but not likely.
I wonder if this interacts with Android Auto. AA essentially uses your car's speakers and screen as peripherals for your phone, so hopefully it's sandboxed out of the car's systems (except then it's Google reading your messages).
...just don't link it?
It sucks but the easiest thing to do is to never enable your phone to connect to any of the car USB ports and/or their Bluetooth data service. Also find out were your car connects to voice speaker and remove the fuse from it or if you want to just cut the cable off completely.