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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

How do they collect any data? Beyond the locations the car drives to.

From the article:

from your medical information, your genetic information, to your “sex life”

But how? I can't fathom it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Internal dash cam video and/or audio.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Bear in mind many models also have voice recognition, and the Bluetooth can potentially pick up the MAC on every phone in the car.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

By connecting to your phone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

From metadata alone, you could identify somebody at a strip club on Friday, a church on Sunday, and an STD clinic on Tuesday