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Judge rules it's fine for car makers to intercept your text messages (www.malwarebytes.com)

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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.

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[–] skoberlink@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed. The letter of the law vs the spirt of the law. So legal but not right

People shouldn’t have to not use or rip out their infotainment systems to have privacy. The automakers know that people are just going to take the path of least resistance and know that people aren’t going to read the fine print