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Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Dongle Apps, a Belgian tech company, has introduced a new system which alerts a car owner if the vehicle's driver is breaking the speed limit. Initially designed for parents and guardians to keep an eye on their young ones behind the wheel, the 'Rookie Dongle', connects to the vehicle's on-board diagnostics (OBD II) port, internal GPS and mobile technologies to push real-time data to the cloud and send notifications to car owners via email or text when the driver is speeding, suddenly accelerates, brakes hard or has high RPM levels.
Of course it's bullshit. So is the story itself - these devices are not about warning parents that their kids are driving too fast, it's a backdoor to gather driving data to sell to insurance companies. They do a very nice job of trying to conceal that fact though.
Privacy Policy
Your data will not be shared, lent out, sold or made available in any other way to third parties, unless you give us your explicit consent hereto or if we are obliged to by court.
Sounds all well and good but then you go to the general conditions, which are in Belgian (even though the rest of their site is English)
Dongle Apps is also the sole owner of the information collected automatically by the dongle or while using the corresponding Services by the Client.
The Client grants Dongle Apps explicit authorization to exploit these data in accordance with Article 13 of these conditions.
Basically, they can do what they want with the data and fuck you very much.