Judge rules it’s fine for car makers to intercept your text messages::A judge has refused to bring back a class action lawsuit against four car manufacturers because the privacy violation did not meet the WPA standard.

  • skoberlink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t like this but it seems like it is an accurate application of law (IANAL), right?

    The right place to fix this is in the company’s policies and in the laws in the first place.

    Of course, making those company policies more clear and available is important too. Even by TOS standards, I can’t imagine many people have read it for their car.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How stringent is the WPA standard anyway? The texts have to be stolen at gunpoint for the express purpose of jerking off to stolen dicktures?

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    1 year ago

    I guess I fundamentally misunderstand what’s going on here…

    If you want to use your phone hands free thtough the info-tainment system, it kind of NEEDS to have access to your calls, contacts, and texts, yeah?

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      1 year ago

      It should be able to access them from your phone instead of the cell service.

      Using the word ‘intercepts’ makes it sound like they’re doing the latter, although that may not be the case.

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    1 year ago

    Judges who take any kind of compensation from large corporations should be stripped of their skin and left to publicly bleed out on display for the world, a constant supply of lemon juice and vinegar showering them.