New Mustang listenning to your every move
 

Neighbor bought one and tells me Ford know where you are and even know your phone contacets, listen in or read your outgoing and incoming text message and your location. It tracks your location and if you are speeding or corning too fast. Should anyone ask, whats to stop your "lil Mustang from ratting you out? What if you use colorful languages with your friends or wife about a certain groups of people and your employer hears about it or any business trade secretes. Yet, we allow this to happen. How and why should Ford have the number to my kids who are minors and track their moves as they drive my car. All the speed sensors, lane corrections and falling asleep warnings can be dangerous should we need to pass on a two lane hwy going over the speed limit. If the car senses you are weaving or falling asleep, it will make you pull over to the side of the road, reset it by turning the car off and start again. The sensors can read speed limit and passing in school zones becomes a no-no. Big brother is now only watching, but he lives with us now. I am started to like my old friend, the Duramax. It doesn't rat me out.

Like it or not, I believe people see these as features and not intrusions; otherwise, Ford wouldn't have them. Plus, your phone's already been ratting you out for eons.

I’ll take the old junk I drive over this intrusion into my private life any day.

It probably knows the best places to get coffee.

That smartphone in your pocket is 10 times worse

Ever heard of onstar? Black boxes? Orwell was an optimist.

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I wonder if the car could do this if you left the phone home. If so get a burner and it won't pair. Doesn't have the onboard technology either from what I know.

Does your neighbor work for the NSA or need their shiny reflective hat serviced?

This isn't news, Captain pointed it out above. If you want conveniences such as mobile ordering, maps & traffic, streaming music, there's a tradeoff.

There are ways to diminish it but good lord...enough rehashing the cranky old trope.

Well I drive a 2000 Lexus RX300, no nanny things to worry about ratting me out, my smartphone on the other hand...


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Wait 'till they find out what their smart fridge is reporting about them! :)

I will say I dislike start-stop, lane depart, adaptive cruise, stability control, and more. Heck I don't even like automatic transmissions. I want my car to do what I want.
But I never worry about my car spying on me.

A good reason to never consider this new Silicon Valley inspired tech garbage.

Don't waste money on that Orwellian **** that markets to you.

rjp

Now you can worry, I guess.

This is basically wiretapping: Intercepting communications without the consent or knowledge of the party.
That is illegal.
The information is also proprietary business and medical and conversations with lawyers and other.

Piracy hurts everybody. SOPA rules of up to $65k or was it $85k per incident. That's what was adjudged on some housewife who's kid downloaded a bunch of songs.

It should be "Opt-In" by default, with a specific separate contract in plain language signifying everything where the data goes to, and what happens if that will change, and there should be clear punitive recourse for it occurring without consent (like there would be any way to prove that without an insider whistle-blower).

Just wait for the tech company mailing all kind of tickets.
Speeding
Reckless driving
Red lights
DUI after bar stop
Indecency after brothel stop
...tbc

I read recently that of all industries gathering your information (FB, etc), the industry that has collected far more personal data than others is the auto industry.

I read that somewhere on the internets…and they wouldn’t lie.

If you're worried about your phone spying on you keep it in a Faraday bag when you're not using it.

And remember to cover your head with foil in case it pulls out your thoughts.

Pretty much everything listens to you nowadays. As I tell my kids - if you assume you are always being filmed and always being recorded you won’t be far off the mark. So glad I grew up before cellphones…