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In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government (apnews.com)
schwit1 shares a report: More than 200 manufacturers, including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi and U.S.-listed electric vehicle start-up NIO, transmit position information and dozens of other data points to government-backed monitoring centers, The Associated Press has found. Generally, it happens without car owners' knowledge. The automakers say they are merely complying with local laws, which apply only to alternative energy vehicles. Chinese officials say the data is used for analytics to improve public safety, facilitate industrial development and infrastructure planning, and to prevent fraud in subsidy programs.
But other countries that are major markets for electronic vehicles -- the United States, Japan, across Europe -- do not collect this kind of real-time data. And critics say the information collected in China is beyond what is needed to meet the country's stated goals. It could be used not only to undermine foreign carmakers' competitive position, but also for surveillance -- particularly in China, where there are few protections on personal privacy. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China has unleashed a war on dissent, marshalling big data and artificial intelligence to create a more perfect kind of policing, capable of predicting and eliminating perceived threats to the stability of the ruling Communist Party.
But other countries that are major markets for electronic vehicles -- the United States, Japan, across Europe -- do not collect this kind of real-time data. And critics say the information collected in China is beyond what is needed to meet the country's stated goals. It could be used not only to undermine foreign carmakers' competitive position, but also for surveillance -- particularly in China, where there are few protections on personal privacy. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China has unleashed a war on dissent, marshalling big data and artificial intelligence to create a more perfect kind of policing, capable of predicting and eliminating perceived threats to the stability of the ruling Communist Party.
It WILL be used not only to undermine foreign carmakers' competitive position, but also for surveillance
Fixed that for you.
You forgot to add that your social media score will be "adjusted" if you speed, block traffic, make illegal turns, or drive to "certain areas" the government doesn't approve of.
I am pretty sure the could/will should be changed to "is".
Every day, Slashdot admins shocked to discover that China is a dictatorship.
A real one, not an "OMG, my political opponents won something so oh noes" one.
In USA, Your Card IS Talking To the Government: https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
In reality, if your vehicle can be reporting on you, the only safe assumption is that it is doing so. It doesn't matter what country you live in, except that some countries may be more likely to abuse the information. Your automaker's EULA certainly gives them the right to sell that data to anyone they like. It might require a token attempt at anonymization, but we all know that can be reversed if you have enough data.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
> But other countries that are major markets for electronic vehicles -- the United States, Japan, across Europe -- do not collect this kind of real-time data.
Sure they do.
ANPR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cell site locality/triangulation from the built-in-car phone.
And before anyone says 'real-time', with my aluminium foil hat correctly fitted, Snowdon showed that things are collected...
On the other hand, my insurance company OBD dongle and my RFID toll pass can't keep their yaps shut.
Have gnu, will travel.
And the future...is going to be some kind of warped Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas Howard, where the government watches all you do, then shuts off your access to loans and whatnot if you don't kowtow and your communist social score drops too low.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Are you kidding me? The TPS security hole is damn easy for the police to exploit, so easy that I'm downright sure most police departments are. It certainly explains my last few speeding tickets.
Y'all don't know what deflection is? It's like a story about China that suddenly becomes about 'Murrica. It's about Cohen pleading guilty to misleading congress, and Trump saying "Her emails!"
And notice that I did a purposeful example of deflection as well.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.