Obviously ridiculous that people put up with this kind of infringement but not unexpected either. Manufacturers access to data should work like it does in open source. A choice given to the user to share anonymized data or not. Remote start and maintenance alerts can be done with privacy if we make it a condition of purchase.

I stumbled on a somewhat related article: https://www.wired.com/story/fight-right-repair-cars-turns-ugly/#intcid=recommendations_right-rail-personalized-popularity-mab-experiment_a497d7bf-ceac-4e92-87a0-0430080b7196_personalized-popularity-mab-strategy

This just hammers home my idea that mass psychosis or weakness or madness does affect us all. The more consumers allow these abuses, the more we all have little choice left.

I usually agree with what he has to say but man I can’t stand his delivery.