Via: Bruce Charlton’s Notions
I’m sorry, Greg, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” The totalitarian “internet of things” here-and-now, and going-ahead, regardless…
“Greg” is a engineer/ pilot tech vlogger whose aircraft stuff is second to none. He also does things about cars, which I don’t usually look-at – but I took a look at this one, about a new Ford Mustang.
Specifically, it is about the data that the car collects from the vehicle, the driver, and what the driver does in and with the vehicle – including reading and recording his mobile phone. This information is used to enforce certain styles and practices of driving.
If certain things happen; the car will compel you to leave the road, stop and switch off the engine. If the computer doesn’t want you to do something, the car won’t do it.
The logged information is also shared with Ford, law enforcement, and anyone else that the company deems to be a responsible authority (plus, conditions of use are explicitly changeable in an open-ended way, without obligation to inform the owner).
Your car can (and, soon, presumably will) report you for what it regards as any kind of traffic, or other, offences; and provides “the authorities” with the necessary “objective” information to prove your guilt.
All of which you have “agreed to” in advance by consenting to the terms of service. Condemned by your own will.
(The demons insist on it!)
The whole video is relevant, but the main information comes from 4:40.
RTWT @ Bruce Charlton’s Notions
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