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Now that automobile manufacturers are almost more about software than hardware, your car company may know more about you than your spouse based on all the sensors in your car. The incentive to collect driver and passenger data is great. Every piece of data is used to increase revenue, especially if sold onward to third-parties.
Dunn may consider his everyday driving habits mundane, but auto and privacy experts suspect that big automakers like Honda see them as anything but. By monitoring his everyday movements, an automaker can vacuum up a massive amount of personal information about someone like Dunn, everything from how fast he drives and how hard he brakes to how much fuel his car uses and the entertainment he prefers. The company can determine where he shops, the weather on his street, how often he wears his seat belt, what he was doing moments before a wreck — even where he likes to eat and how much he weighs.
Though drivers may not realize it, tens of millions of American cars are being monitored like Dunn's, experts say, and the number increases with nearly every new vehicle that is leased or sold.
The result is that carmakers have turned on a powerful spigot of precious personal data, often without owners' knowledge, transforming the automobile from a machine that helps us travel to a sophisticated computer on wheels that offers even more access to our personal habits and behaviors than smartphones do.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:05AM (2 children)
How about those tins chocolates and cookies show up in?
They are pretty little tins... and I like them to keep my stuff that I am trying to shield from an EMP in. I have a bunch of big red ones chocolates came in... just the size for putting in a file cabinet. Here's hoping that should we have a big EMP, the silicon I am using to build my arduino-compatibles and a couple of laptops ( that run on 12VDC ) will survive.
I gotta keep my parts somewhere. So, I file all my silicon, transistors, whatever, in these. Another favorite container is metal ammo boxes. So stackable, and uniform in size, so I don't have to worry about having them collapse or fall apart on me.
Yeh, go ahead and call me a worry-wort, considering we have an EMP, but I really didn't pay a dime for the "insurance"... I just rescued the stuff from going to the landfill. I figured it made more sense to keep this kind of stuff in a sturdy box rather than flimsy plastic drawers.
To me, its more like carrying a spare engine belt, coolant, tools, and fuel in my van, especially if I am going into the desert.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Virindi on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:47PM
Aren't those made of sheet steel? A steel box may not provide sufficient shielding for a large EMP, you need aluminum.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:48PM
Try it. Put your phone in the box and call it. Not guaranteed as a test, but reasonably good unless it was specifically designed to fake this out.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.