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Car (lack of) privacy, and what to do about it. Let's talk about this?

It's designed to be hell. I primarily know about Honda's practices as a relative bought a new Honda and ran into the same issue laid out in this article.

I drive a vehicle that's over a decade old and have joked with friends and family that if I have to buy a new vehicle I am ripping the whole dashboard out. I imagine I may get blacklisted from local dealerships for my demands, but that is the world we live in.

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Let's say you are teaching a basic, 1-hour-long class to the general public about privacy and general tech hygiene. What kinds of topics would you include?

I think the majority of the time ought to be showing real-world examples of why these things matter.

Stores use your phone's bluetooth to track your shopping

Smart doorbells will gladly send your footage to police without your permission

Target knew a teenager was pregnant based on shopping habits

Mozilla has a solid breakdown of how your car is spying on you

The goal being to give them something lasting. So next time they interact with this tech they remember what you told them, and maybe start a privacy journey of their own.

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you know what's mildly infuriating? a reposter bot

Yeah that's what the block button is for. Blocking is a great method for content curation.

Reddit had a ton of accounts like this, and I loved blocking every one of them. That clearly wasn't the majority opinion, though.

I think that mods should only take action if it's too difficult to moderate or the posts are doing consistently poorly. Not a mod, though, so what do I know?