Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules

Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs::Just because they store messages in a way owners can’t access doesn’t mean it’s a privacy violation, US court rules

  • Tranquilizer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Vote with your money. Apparently, people WANT to have their data harvested. Which goes for anything. Just look at how many people are still using Chrome rather than Brave or Firefox. Or Gmail, Gdrive rather than Protonmail/drive.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Brave is shady as hell. Use open source firefox builds if possible.

    • NAXLAB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      If voting with your money is a valid way for people to collectively decide right and wrong, does that mean people with more money get more votes?

      Does that mean the people with the most money get the most votes?

      If that’s all true, does that mean if someone has way more money than everyone else, they get to decide what’s right and wrong?

      • Tranquilizer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        If that’s all true, does that mean if someone has way more money than everyone else, they get to decide what’s right and wrong?

        That’s indeed the mechanism that is used to get to the situation we are in.

        Money, based on quantity, is worthless to us filthy commoners. But it’s fundamentally a representation of your time and attention; the only currency that matters.

        Laws will not help to solve anything. Not only is it supposed to represent the same collective you just described as making bad decisions, they are administered by government, which in turn is a mechanism for business to advance.

        Even chickenfeed laws to “better privacy” when corporation like Google gets out of hand won’t help in the long term.

        The ONLY solution is proper education. Not in government schools (which produces mindless consumers), but by spreading this information yourself.

        And nobody said it’s going to be easy when you’re up against the limitless money press big business has access to.