A woman said an Audi loaner car's Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.

A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Hey look, it is one of those things that would be great if it worked perfectly and never sent data out from the vehicle but since it won’t be perfect and it will absolutely be designed to send telemetry it will be a dystopian nightmare as the article points out.

    • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m mostly in the same boat. It would be neat, but auto manufacturers have already started grumbling about the money it will cost to build one of these devices, and there’s no way they would fail to either

      1. pass this cost on to the consumer, or
      2. collect the data to sell later, or
      3. simply do both. Probably this one.
      • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Money isn’t my objection. I think mandating safety equipment like back up cameras is a good thing.

        This is fantasy tech that will never work reliably for the entire population and therefore it should not be required even if it was free.