• zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    How do they collect any data? Beyond the locations the car drives to.

    From the article:

    from your medical information, your genetic information, to your “sex life”

    But how? I can’t fathom it.

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      11 months ago

      From metadata alone, you could identify somebody at a strip club on Friday, a church on Sunday, and an STD clinic on Tuesday

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      11 months ago

      Bear in mind many models also have voice recognition, and the Bluetooth can potentially pick up the MAC on every phone in the car.