Researchers, industry leaders urge Ottawa to develop rules to protect consumers as Canada opens its market to Chinese EVs

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      22 days ago

      So do American cars. What else is new?

      I don’t like it regardless of where the car company is from.

      It’s my car. You don’t get to use it to snoop on me. I don’t care which country the snoops are in.

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      23 days ago

      The US has to come up with court orders and warrants to get data from third parties like GM or Ford, and those companies are not compelled to collect any particular dataset. Every Chinese business is, by default, required to both capture all data and share it with the Chinese government, and they are required not to disclose that they were collecting and sharing that data.

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        22 days ago

        So? I the US the data is sent to third parties with your géo-localisation data and driving data, along with other personal info. Third parties like insurance companies, marketing companies, AI, etc. It’s like your car is essentially Meta

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          23 days ago

          Exactly, gov’t access isn’t nearly the main problem as a lot of our lives are controlled by private corporations. Besides, the gov’t can buy access to this data from data broker firms.

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            22 days ago

            @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca

            gov’t access isn’t nearly the main problem …

            It definitely is a main problem, at least in democratic countries. Spying on citizens without reason violates the constitution.

            But China isn’t a democracy but rather a dictatorship. That makes the situation even worse, and privacy isn’t by far the only violation of human rights committed by the government in Beijing as we know.

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              21 days ago

              People literally telling you in this thread why for them it isn’t. You can ignore them all u want and tell them they’re wrong. Won’t change a thing as that doesn’t stop their car insurance company making their lives more expensive using data collected from American cars.

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                  21 days ago

                  Re-read the thread including your own comment. If that doesn’t help. I can’t help you. There are courses in English.

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                    21 days ago

                    There are also courses in democracy and critical thinking.

                    I stop this conversation now. There’s nothing meaningful to expect.