#Cars#Privacy#DataProtection#Honda#Surveillance: "I wanted to turn off data collection on my car because it’s creepy and I thought the option would be simple. It turns out that shutting off data collection and figuring out what’s been collected is much more difficult than it would seem. I know because it took me — a reasonably informed and technologically savvy person — a month to finally do so.
I’m in good company.
“It’s comically difficult,” Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist at Electronic Frontier Foundation, who’s written about how to do just this, told me. “I do this for a living and I am not 100% positive I have gotten everything correct, which is ridiculous.”
In March, my husband and I bought a new Honda. When I turned on the car to leave the dealership, I got a notification telling me that data sharing was on. Right next to “on” was an “off” button. Simple enough! But when I hit “off” I got a message telling me it was “unable to change settings while network is invalid.” Right.
My children were screaming at me from the back seat, so I assumed this was a problem I could easily fix another time."
I remember this ride clearly. It was the beginning of the COVID Era, and I was still working in-person in a customer service role. I was finishing up my degree. I took a ride out to a local state park with some empty roads running through it and did some sightseeing. I had my first "close call" when an oncoming car driver failed to notice me (a bright green cannonball), took a left turn directly in front of me, and stopped in my travel lane when she panicked.
My stomach is churning....
Shades of Trump in this announcement about Honda. Of course Ford doesn't mention the Feds contribution.
I am waiting for the , "this is the bigglyist deal of the century".
"@ColinDMello: Premier Ford calls Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli the “architect” of this deal.
The Ontario politicians are all wearing a pin bearing the flags of Japan-Canada-Ontario. "
Some initial thoughts from the Austin #MotoGP race. About an imperious performance by a mercurial rider, about the hype being real, and about the factories in trouble. Including one you weren't expecting.