#connected cars

[odinsblog]

🗣️ This is for all new internet connected cars

A new study has found that your car likely knows more about you than your mom. That is disconcerting, but what’s even more so is what is being done with your information. It’s all about the Benjamins. Our private information is being collected and sold.

The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit that studies internet and privacy issues, studied 25 car manufacturers. And it found every manufacturer sold in America poses a greater risk to your privacy than any device, app or social media platform.

Our cars are rolling computers, many of which are connected to the internet collecting information about how you drive and where. New cars also have microphones and sensors that give you safety features like automatic braking and drowsy driver detection. Those systems are also providing information. Got GPS or satellite radio? Then your car likely knows your habits, musical and political preferences.

Did you download your car’s app which gives you access to even more features? Well that also gives your car access to your phone and all the information on it.

The study found that of the 25 car brands, 84% say they sell your personal data.

And what they collect is astounding.

One example the study sites is KIA’s privacy policy. It indicates the company collects information about your sexual activity. I initially didn’t believe it until I pulled KIA’s privacy policy and read it. And it’s right there in black and white. It says it collects information about your “ethnicity, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, or political opinions.

And it says it can keep your info for “as long as is necessary for the legitimate business purpose set out in this privacy notice.”

Translation: Nissan can keep your information as long as they want to. And more than half of the manufacturers (56%) say they will share your information with law enforcement if asked.

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#politics #data mining #smart cars #spyware #privacy rights #surveillance state #new ​cars #big brother #nissan #kia #connected cars #consumer alert #panopticon

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: T-Mobile fixed wireless gets a little less generous, connected-car concerns

After clocking 17 days in a row of work–thanks to the run-up to CES, CES itself, and then needing to catch up on projects set aside during that week in Vegas–I ditched professional obligations Monday to go skiing. And then I answered some business e-mails from the chairlift anyway. 1/23/2024: T-Mobile Plans to Deprioritize ‘Heavy Data’ Users of Its Home 5G, PCMag Once again, Reddit enlightened me…

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#AWS automotive #ces #connected cars #fixed wireless #home 5G #Qualcomm #T-Mobile #T-Mobile home 5G #Washington Auto Show

[respectthepetty]

I should've given an award to Oh No! Here Comes Trouble last year for the red thread of a fate, but Unknown's final episodes just solidified that this WILL be a Colors Award this year.

Because I just really love when the colors color so fucking well.

The red stairs were a character all on their own.

Those red stairs continuously showed they were connected.

And it worked so well since Qian and Yuan were black and white.

So every time the red showed up between them, it was just a reminder of their connection.

And that they were meant to be together.

Because with Yuan, Qian is lighter.

Without him, he is completely dark.

That red street brought them together.

It's where their story began, both as brothers, and as partners.

And it was extended even to San Pang and Lili.

Yuan and Qian's light and dark dynamic was constantly reinforced.

Again and again

And when Yuan told Qian not to be afraid of the cracks because that's where the light comes in, it reinforced the whole purpose of this light and dark dynamic.

In Qian's dark world, Yuan brought light. When Qian thought he was flawed, Yuan showed him he was loved. Where Qian thought he was broken, Yuan healed him.

So for Yuan to say that he thinks Qian's mother brought them together, and for us to always see in her red . . .

In a painful way, Yuan is right. Qian is who he is because of the hurt from his mother. Qian would have never met Yuan, would have never protected Yuan, and would have never loved Yuan the way he had if he hadn't been so adamant to never be his mother.

And because of that, Yuan can return that love to Qian (while they are balanced in similar colors)

AND THE BLACK BRACELET! (Since Qian is color coded black, him giving Yuan his color is so significant, and now Yuan is giving him back all that love!)

The red brought them together.

And now they get to sit there in this soft blinding light of love in their soft pinks being happy and in love with each other!

Take your award, Unknown!

Fucking Taiwan, hurting me twice with this damn red thread.

#unknown the series spoilers #unknown spoilers #color coded boys in love #the colors mean things #red thread of destiny #it always connects them #they are destined #unknown the series #unknown #taiwan and this red thread #colors award nominee #no one else is gonna do it better this year #colors award WINNER #I am crying in the club #I am crying in my office #I am crying in my car

[livejournallegacy]

MAD MAX (1979) dir. George Miller + NA NA NA (2010) dir. Robert Schober, Gerard Way

"I wanted to make this concept album that connected with the [Killjoys] comic. But because of that, I had changed some things about it for the sake of being part of MCR, and I made things a little more dystopian, a little more like a colourful punk-rock post-Mad Max thing." - Gerard Way

#gifsets are something that can actually be so self indulgent #these took soooo long oh my GOD #rip to the gifs that didnt make the cut maybe ill make another post........ #what can i say i'm a danger days girlie and i love to draw tenuous connections #my chemical romance #mcr #gerard way #my chem #mad max #my gifs #killjoys #gun #car crash #explosion #honestly idk how to tag this please let me know if i missed anything <3

[hellspawnmotel]

🕰️

#rest well toriyama-sensei #i hope wherever you are now it has more cigarettes and dirty mags and model cars than one man could ever smoke or read or build #chrono trigger #art tag #i know he was only the art director on ct but its my strongest personal connection with him #so much of my design sense can be traced back to it and other jrpgs #and i wouldnt have gotten into old jrpgs if i hadnt played it as a teen #thank you for everything youve done for mankind! #(btw click this the quality got nerfed for the crime of being horizontal)

[httpiastri]

these two <33

#i want to show a stranger these pics and ask what their jobs are because no way in hell would anyone think these two drive fast cars #they’re such dorks #im at the gym and when i saw that they uploaded the vid i was like !!! need to watch instantly !!!!!! #doesn’t help that i have pretty much no internet connection in my gym so a 5 min video took 30+ minutes to watch but it was worth it #there’s so much to unpack from this video #i loved every second of it #best birthday gift ever to be honest #f1 #lando norris #oscar piastri #formula one #formula 1 #mclaren #favorite pics of my favorite boys 💘

[eightiesfan]

Clarion city connection D005 (1985)

#clarion #city connection #cleaned #car radio #80s #1980s #empire state building #car stereo #auto radio #vintage tech #old tech #old stereo #graphic equalizer #cassette #car #audio

[wis-art]

the aftermath of the little comic i made, hehe

#she did end up baking the cookies #lucy #wiki #drawing #doodle #art #my art #lesbian #they're watching a video about car blinkers and how they work #Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is) #by technology connections #they are very into it #i forgot to draw her wings............................ #oh well

[lotus-pear]

i'd like to think chuuya knows bits of french to some extent bc rimbaud would often randomly exclaim smth or mumble to himself in his native tongue and chuuya would overhear and pick up the little phrases and store it in the back of his mind unconsciously bc of his intrinsically observant nature, only for those phrases to resurface again when he's fighting verlaine and verlaine goes "sacre bleu!" or some shit and chuuya's like "Oh. OH. IVE HEARD THAT BEFORE...WASNT THAT WHAT SUB EXEC RANDOU ALWAYS USED TO SAY...." and verlaine completely halts with a nebulous expression on his face before going "who?????"

#yeah maybe i just said this bc i want to hear chuuya speak french. what of it? shut up. #do you think when verlaine approached chuuya as a mailman and told him to get in the car #his undeniable subtle french accent faintly registered in the back of chuuya's mind as the same tone rimbaud would speak in #and when adam yelled “THATS VERLAINE” the dots simultaneously connected as chuuya realized who the driver was #having stormbringer thoughts again... i miss this sad gay european family sm #hope chuuya brings verlaine a baguette back from france since they're in meursault still #maybe he'll move his ass out of the basement then #bsd

[fandomsandfeminism]

Summer 2023 checklist

Ask a friend for a book recommendation and then actually read it.

Go to your local library. Get a card. Attend 1 event they have. (Maybe see if you can borrow the book your friend recommended.)

Go to a park or outside space in your town that you haven't visited before.

Get a cheap pack of crayons, color pencils, or other cheap art supplies. Sit outside. (Maybe that park you've never visited!) Draw something badly. Enjoy how bad it is.

Get an outfit that feels about 20% skimpier and more revealing than you are comfortable with. Wear it. Eat something frozen. Feel cute.

Bake some cookies. They don't have to be pretty. Just follow the recipe.

Does your town have a Pride celebration? Go to it! (If it doesn't, what's the nearest one? Go!)

Find a farmers market. Buy something baked.

Get sidewalk chalk. Draw silly doodles outside your house. It's OK if it looks like a child did it. Your neighbors will like it.

#summer 2023 #summer is for feeling like a kid and doing something new #connecting with community #being a slightly different person for a day so you can feel the stretch of your skin #indulging in little things #singing loudly in the car and smelling like sun screen

[caffeinefire]

Not a detail I missed, exactly, on my first read-through. But 2 and 2 that just didn’t quite make it together I think:

Vash isn’t just burning up the rest of his power and life in this final fight, he is specifically and and deliberately putting himself through his Last Run.

#like I KNEW that’s what it was #that’s what the black hair ends with we were told that #I had just never connected it to the panel when knives noticed his power spike before #and the Last Run seems more like an event that has to start not just… the final usage of power #like the difference between recklessly continuing to drive until your car just stops and setting the rest of the fuel tank on fire #trigun #trigunbookclub #vash the stampede #trigun maximum #trigun spoilers #trimax spoilers #trimax vol 12

[odinsblog]

An internet and privacy watchdog has a warning: Your car is tracking you, and it’s collecting far more information than it needs just to get you where you’re going.

Mozilla, the nonprofit that develops the Firefox browser, released a report Wednesday detailing how the policies of more than two dozen car manufacturers allow for the collection, storage and sale of a wide range of sensitive information about auto owners.

Researchers behind the report said that cars now routinely collect data on par with tech companies, offer few details on how that data is stored and used, and don’t give drivers any meaningful way to opt out.

“Cars are a humongous privacy nightmare that nobody’s seemingly paying attention to,” said Jen Caltrider, who directs Privacy Not Included, a consumer privacy guide run by Mozilla. “And they’re getting away with it. It really needs to change because it’s only going to get worse as cars get more and more connected.”

Unlike Europe, the U.S has few meaningful regulations on how companies trade and store personal data. That’s led to a bustling industry of companies that buy and sell peope’s information, often without their knowledge.

Carmakers have a long list of personal information they say they may track, including employment and purchasing history, education, internet browsing history, location data, music and podcast listening habits, immigration status, religious and philosophical beliefs and health information.

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#politics #smart cars #privacy rights #data mining #spyware #capitalism #surveillance state #connected cars #4th amendment #fourth amendment #4th amendment violations

[walkingintheamm]

so I haven't read the manhwa or anything but I'm starting to think both jiwon and jihyuk got a second chance in life because they both saved this cat's life... jiwon by feeding it and jihyuk by jumping in front of a car to save it and then keeping him... and it all happened just a few months after jiwon's father's death, and now seeing the cat covered in cherry blossom petals which were also the trees jiwon drove by in the taxi with her dad right before she died

#marry my husband #marry my husband kdrama #right now I'm that I'm connecting the dots you didn't connect shit buzzfeed unsolved meme #also the petals also appeared around yura's assistent right before she drove off #probably indicating that either he dodge his fate of dying with yura in car or that yura's fate was about to change #because she got jihyuk's fate #me posts

[passionesolja]

#bg3 #bg3 withers #baldur’s gate 3 #baldur’s gate iii #bg3 memes #bg3 meta #playing through act 3 of an chaotic good Durge run and got to the Bhaal temple #I won��t say too much but oh my god was this man a life saver like he is the realest in faerun #tbh good durge is such a trip like you’re the worst mf in the planet #the good aligned durge run is like Cars the movie but Lightning McQueen runs a evil cult #and has to learn morality by forming connections to mfs he meets #we smoking Orin pack and we smoking her granddaddy too fym

[ohgaylor]

Hits Different // cowboy like me // All Too Well (20 Minute Version) // Wildest Dreams // Getaway Car // You’re On Your Own Kid // Renegade (all lyric connections)

#taylor swift #lyric*connections #mine #taylor swift parallels #parallels #hits different #cowboy like me #all too well (10 minute version) #wildest dreams #getaway car #you’re on your own kid #renegade #midnights #folklore #red (taylor's version) #1989 #reputation #how long do you think it’s gonna last #hldytigl

[katabay]

this tweet & this scene from the mystery of the abyss movie

#comparatives tag #<< for non art posts where i connect the dots with various things #dmbj #heihua #reunion mystery of the abyss #like what the fuck!! what the fuck!!!! #both of them were so 'im going to die for you' this entire movie i have never been more stressed out watching something in my life #if you are unfamiliar with dmbj: there are multiple layers to how upsettingly tragic this is #i keep trying to summarize it in the tags but honestly all im getting is 'you're in a car with a beautiful boy and you're both #trying to die for each other.' #like you want him to live so so badly because he's SUPPOSED to outlive you #and he can't stand to have you die in front of him as long as he's still breathing! im clawing at the fucking walls guys