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Can I please just get a car, instead of a rolling computer / infotainment / privacy nightmare?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No actual idea, but I think there's a considerable amount of cars that are filled with cams and mics "for your convenience".
Including the (afaik) mandatory SOS button, that has a mic and a cellular connection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's reasonable to explain many things for well equipped cars, but the genetic information??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's a good question. Maybe the steering wheel absorbs and tests the driver's sweat? Lol this sounds overboard, and almost certainly it is, but I can't think of anything that would warrant that part

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, yep, it would also be unreasonably expensive, but who knows?
Maybe they get that by correlating your profile with data of some entity that does have it, because it was collected and shared by a health company you might used services from. No amount of tinfoil hats will protect us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We need tinfoil gloves!

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