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ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Senators Expose Car Companies’ Terrible Data Privacy Practices.

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ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week, Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the FTC to investigate several car companies caught selling and sharing customer information without clear consent. Alongside details previously gathered from reporting by The New York Times, the...
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    The senators were not the ones that exposed anything.

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      Yeah, I saw a report that Mozilla published on this last year: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

      Either way, it’s still good that some senators are getting involved and putting some pressure on them.

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