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If you didn't think that cars were bad enough already, it turns out they are diving head first into surveillance capitalism and the article we're about to reference does not say this but it is important to understand that carmakers are going all in on

surveillance capitalism to try to make up for lost profits during the transition to electric cars and beyond because electric cars are expected to

require so much less costly maintenance that that is going to be a loss of revenue for the carmakers.

Like electric cars are so much better, not just for the environment, but also will cost less to maintain,

that carmakers are like, oh no, people are going to want to drive our

cars, you know, electric cars for like 10 or 15 years and they won't break down that whole time

and will require relatively little maintenance, how are we going to make up for all the oil changes that we would have done otherwise, you know, everything that goes into cars, and they're're like how about we just mine people for

their data and sell that to advertisers like all of the most hated companies in the

world.

So this article is actually from Mozilla,

the foundation from Mozilla,

the maker of the Firefox web browser. and so they went through and they're like privacy-minded

folks over there so they researched 25 car brands and every single one of them earned the Privacy Not Included warning label

making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that Mozilla has ever reviewed, which is impressive.

So the quick four points, I guess, their main points here. Number one they collect too much personal data. Number two most 84% of these companies share or sell your data.

Number three, most, 92% give drivers little to no control

over their personal data.

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