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Cars
On a recent drive, a 2017 Chevrolet collected my precise location. It stored my phone’s ID and the people I called. It judged my acceleration and braking style, beaming back reports to its maker General Motors over an always-on Internet connection.
Cars have become the most sophisticated computers many of us own, filled with hundreds of sensors. Even older models know an awful lot about you. Many copy over personal data as soon as you plug in a smartphone.
But for the thousands you spend to buy a car, the data it produces doesn’t belong to you.
*Driving surveillance: What does your car know about you? We hacked a 2017 Chevy to find out.* (cache)
Je sais que je ne pourrais probablement plus acheter de voiture récente non plus. Ce qui n’est pas plus mal. J’ose à peine imaginer la quantité d’informations stockée dans une voiture de location. Il faut que je fasse plus attention à cela.
Automakers haven’t had a data reckoning yet, but they’re due for one. GM ran an experiment in which it tracked the radio music tastes of 90,000 volunteer drivers to look for patterns with where they traveled. According to the Detroit Free Press, GM told marketers that the data might help them persuade a country music fan who normally stopped at Tim Horton’s to go to McDonald’s instead.
Ibid.
Ceci n’est pas de la science-fiction, il y a aussi une intersectionnalité dans la surveillance et la manipulation. Joie.