Google Android Auto may collect and use vehicle data, such as location, speed, and fuel level...

[rydfree]

So that's why there is a chip shortage .

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[WesternFlyer]

Yup, tired of being stamped, indexed, filed, and profiled just so the big companies, that hate me, can profit from my data.

i gave up my phone for a flip phone but a loved one gave me an iphone because she couldn’t stand me using the flip phone. I use the iphone but It has essentially all data collection turned off and lives in a faraday bag.

I enjoy how easy technology makes everyday life, but I refuse to make it any easier for them to sell my data or engage in anti-American activities.

I just recently gave up Amazon. I now buy almost everything local. I’d rather support my neighbor than Jeff Bozos, and I don’t think Ford has any business knowing where I go just because I bought a truck from them.

I guess my views fit in the AARP age bracket, but I’m sick and tired of people who hate me and my way of life profit off me.

 

[Stevedbvik1]

werent we all injected with microchips anyways when we submitted to the vaxXxinations?

It’s not the vaccine microchip that bothers me, it’s that it refuses to integrate with any of my Apple products.

 

[Wytchdctr]

I'm just going to play with a stick and a hoop and to hell with all this new fangled tech.

 

[Stic-o]

I'm not worried about this. I still can't get the dam thing to stay connected long enough to be a issue ?‍?

 

[canyonslicker]

? about 15 years ago I was on a road trip. I dialed my home number to check in with my wife from my flip phone.. it called one of friends in the 10 person memory. I tried dialing again, same thing different friend. 3rd time it went through.. So I got out of the car to visit my client and looked across the highway. Low and Behold it was an NSA building… coincident?? I think not…

 

[WolfgangVTS]

I just hope when they turn me into crackers, the youth that I feed are nice kids who believe in the magic of a damper

 

[BladeRanger]

Hey everyone,

I got a new phone and went to set it up with Android Auto, then encountered the disturbing Sync screen, below.

I really don't care if location is known, which might be needed for using Waze on the screen. The other stuff is weird. Who wants their insurance company or somebody's lawyer getting ahold of speed data? Why would Google want to track fuel level? And what other "such as" info gets collected? I'd like to shut that all off.

I tried to find a way to disable collection and use of data, but there doesn't seem to be one. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Erik

(btw, dog hair on screen is no fault of Android)

This is one of the platforms they are trying to pass to get to charge how many miles you drive. Not sure if it pass yet. I heard about here in SoCal.

 

[Gizmokid2005]

The tin-foil hats in here are hilarious, especially with how far off the logic behind them seems to be.

It doesn't matter if you use VPN or not, if you use TOR or not, whether you browse over your own internet connection, through your cell connection (with VPN or not), same though any other "untrusted" wifi, it doesn't matter.

Most spam occurs at random or from one of the hundreds of "data leaks" that have happened from various services (if you don't use Have I been Pwned, you're definitely missing a huge breadth of attack vectors).

Email, address, and phone information can be gathered by any one of thousands of companies for a few cents each through one of many data firms (think Equifax, Transunion, Lexis-Nexis, etc) that use both "private" records as well as public records to track your information, name, address, associated phone numbers, email address, other people, etc.

If you use a consistent email across more than one service, there's way more information out there about you than you could even imagine. Nobody needs to have an "open mic" on your cell phone or computers to track you. Not only does the bandwidth and computing power to process all of that information just not reasonably exist yet, it's not needed. And unless you've managed to convinced *every* person you've ever connected with online to also take the same precautions you have, you're just as vulnerable as they are.

Data aggregation and "look-alike" algorithms and comparisons are the bread and butter of most marketing (spam and not), and free public info (such as USPS address - including Change of Address, your voter registration, published phone caller ID information, etc) drives most of it.

As someone who worked in marketing and data analytics for years at a multi-billion dollar retail company who used services like this (as well as now working for a company that utilizes Lexis-Nexis, NCOA, Transunion, and Melissa Data for "people research" for remediation purposes), whatever tracking you think you're opting out of, you're really not. You are maybe having a negligible impact on the information that you have out there, but it's extremely unlikely that you're going to get away from any of it. Until you stop shopping online, using email addresses, and go back to pen and paper, the information that various companies have about you and know about you is vastly larger than you could ever imagine.

 

[Gizmokid2005]

This is one of the platforms they are trying to pass to get to charge how many miles you drive. Not sure if it pass yet. I heard about here in SoCal.

That's...not actually a thing that was happening. People need to take a minute to actually research something they see in a meme on Facebook....

As part of a *federal* spending bill, there was a line-item to do research into whether or not a "miles driven" tax would be a way to help counteract the lack of gas-tax revenue being collected by those with EVs, since they still use the roads and are now not contributing to the funds to upkeep them.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-907285011746

For any state-level programs, Oregon and Utah are the two states that have already started to implement these programs, still on a voluntary basis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/interactive/2021/electric-mileage-tax/

 

[BladeRanger]

That's...not actually a thing that was happening. People need to take a minute to actually research something they see in a meme on Facebook....

As part of a *federal* spending bill, there was a line-item to do research into whether or not a "miles driven" tax would be a way to help counteract the lack of gas-tax revenue being collected by those with EVs, since they still use the roads and are now not contributing to the funds to upkeep them.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-907285011746

For any state-level programs, Oregon and Utah are the two states that have already started to implement these programs, still on a voluntary basis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/interactive/2021/electric-mileage-tax/

Yeah, SANDAG here in San Diego proposed to tax driver last year, using the following, smartphone, transponder or odometer but still in the air for voters. I'm not sure it's going to passed cause you need to drive everywhere you go down here in So Cal. We don't have a good public transportations.

 

[BladeRanger]

Yeah, SANDAG here in San Diego proposed to tax driver last year, using the following, smartphone, transponder or odometer but still in the air for voters. I'm not sure it's going to passed cause you need to drive everywhere you go down here in So Cal. We don't have a good public transportations.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/san-diego-leaders-consider-taxing-drivers-per-mile/

Here's the link for SANDAG proposal, it mentioned about using your smartphones as one of the device, but it's just a proposal at that time.

 

[Gizmokid2005]

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/san-diego-leaders-consider-taxing-drivers-per-mile/

Here's the link for SANDAG proposal, it mentioned about using your smartphones as one of the device, but it's just a proposal at that time.

That SANDAG Proposal died at the end of 2021's calendar year. It was unlikely to pass as written in the first place, but is long since dead and won't be on the ballot now.

 

[Gizmokid2005]

Yeah, SANDAG here in San Diego proposed to tax driver last year, using the following, smartphone, transponder or odometer but still in the air for voters. I'm not sure it's going to passed cause you need to drive everywhere you go down here in So Cal. We don't have a good public transportations.

You are correct. Public transit in SoCal is marginal at *best* - to say nothing of things like LA<->SD transit like the metrolink, which is prohibitively expensive.

SoCal is just built around cars still (like all of the US) and without investments into that infrastructure, anything relating to transportation is pretty moot.

 

[BladeRanger]

That SANDAG Proposal died at the end of 2021's calendar year. It was unlikely to pass as written in the first place, but is long since dead and won't be on the ballot now.

Yesss, a good thing it died.

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