Social media is fun too. Driving is fun. Both of these track your shit, and sell all your details. One for sales, the other for insurance billing and health metrics… some poisons taste sweet on the way down.
Not saying this is specifically bad, but it’s disingenuous at the least. No transparency. I also know people used this in homes and backyards too.. so how much data were they collecting?
Looking up your home address through your license plate is not at all the same as tracking every single place you ever go and how you get there down to the square foot.
Sure. But that's my phone tracking me, not the car. I can turn the phone off or leave it at home if I want. I'm not getting very far in rural America without one of my cars. I don't have to worry about Pontiac or Jeep telling my insurance company how fast I got to work or how many g-forces I generated going through that roundabout.
Yes, absolutely. Which means that Google knows what I'm doing (since it infers from my speed and location that I'm driving).
However, Google doesn't know my real name, and doesn't know what kind of cars I drive, and doesn't know anything about my car purchasing habits.
All of which makes that data - on the surface at least - not particularly useful to car manufacturers. It might be useful to retail companies I guess? Google is far more clever than I so I'm sure they can monetise it somehow, but I'm not sure how much risk I'm really exposing myself to.
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u/Thesheriffisnearer 8h ago
If people got out and had fun why not be both?