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> your car’s movements and exact location are being collected and shared anonymously with a data broker

> said that the company had gotten the precise location of about 10 million G.M. cars up to every one to three seconds, but that the data did not include identifying details about the driver.

The word "Anonymously" means exactly nothing here. If one's exact location and movements are collected, wouldn't that include a lot of time and datapoints where the car is spending time at work and home locations?

Seems incredibly trivial at that point to deanonymize usage.

parent cptcobalt 2 years ago

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