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Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why is it people only care about digital privacy when it effects someone in a negative was like this.

For me the basic concept that someone can sell you something with the ability out of the box to do that and whatever else they want to do with it worries me and makes me want no part of it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

People have been warning about all this back when the internet started becoming popular. People just stopped caring when they got so many services for free. Now we are seeing all that public and private presence backfire on us.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

There's privacy versus the car company that has various levels of concern about it.

This is privacy versus others with access to your car.

It should be easy to remove another user's access from within the car