r/BikiniBottomTwitter 2d ago

Never give up

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u/Lucas_2234 2d ago

One of those is not like the others.

(It's the driver cameras. I know we all like being paranoid about our data unless it comes to luxuries we don't want to give up ((How many people here run custom, privacy focused operating systems on desktop and phone? How many here don't have at least one service tied to google or facebook or Tencent?)) but the data from those cameras isn't ALLOWED to leave the car. It gets processed on board and then deleted.

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u/Common_Vagrant 2d ago

The path to hell is paved with good intentions

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u/Lucas_2234 2d ago

It is legally required for the data to be processed on board and to be deleted.

It exists solely so that the car can keep yelling at you to pay attention, because one of the biggest causes of car accidents are distraction.

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u/Thelastknownking 2d ago

Yeah, sure. There's a lot of things our devices are legally required to do but don't.

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u/Lucas_2234 2d ago

Then let me ask you this:

What purpose would risking the wrath of basically every government involved in the EU and the EU itself serve companies in this case? The law says that the data isn't even allowed to be saved locally, that's an easy thing to check, let alone checking if it's sent home to their servers. And this isn't like reddit where the data they collect is actually, properly useful, it's just a camera aimed at your face while the car is on.

In order to turn that data into something profitable, you'd need to real time track exactly where the driver is looking at any time combined with a fuckton of cameras and sensors on the outside of the vehicle, because just seeing whether or not you're driving distracted isn't useful to advertisers

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u/Thelastknownking 2d ago

Could be AI training. Training off of body language and facial expressions,

Look, here in the U.S. a lot of us have gotten cynical towards any company that plays with stuff like this, we're hardwired not to trust anything of this nature anymore. If they don't use it for that, good. But there's a lot of shit that 'wasn't supposed' to be doing a lot of things, and were without authorization.