The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that collected data about how the car had been driven and promised feedback and digital badges for good driving.
If the article link contains a paywall, you can consider reading this alternative article instead: ‘GM Stops Sharing Driver Data With Brokers Amid Backlash’ on Ars Technica.
I think fixing this problem will require making the collection illegal, with meaningful enforcement.
Our legislators don’t want that though. In fact they’re currently trying to force the sale of US TikTok to a US company likely so they can collect even more data on us.
Yep, we just gotta vote in people who will legislate it. Which means normal people who don’t take
bribesdonations from corporations will need to run for office and beat those who do.So basically we’re doomed. We either need a modern day Teddy Roosevelt or we need to start building guillotines.
Everybody who starts building guillotines gets arrested rather quickly to not disturb the current regime.
It was rather disingenuous in the US to make a system that can only sustain two parties while making the two parties exactly the same economically, while keeping the plebs busy fighting over social differences promoted by the parties (like abortion rights etc). This way there is a too large gap in the population for any kind of significant joined uprising.