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Can politicians get people excited about getting their cars out of the business of spying?

Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:02 pm
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
27261 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:02 pm
We get into our cars, carrying our phones, and everything we say, download, and at some point, think can be used by a 3rd party due to the relationship we have with our phones, tv's and cars.

Have we lost our privacy?

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Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You

Pardoned mechanic Matt Geouge has built a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée realized investigators were following her. Now he braces for steep opposition from manufacturers as he unveils his new product.


Not If This Guy Is Involved!!
This post was edited on 9/30/26 at 3:05 pm
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
26921 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:09 pm to
People: “I love having all the accumulated and situationally prioritized knowledge of the world at my fingertips.”

Also people: “OH MY GOD! Someone might learn my plans for picking up a Costco rotisserie chicken on the way home!”
Posted by Zahrim
McCamey Texas
Member since Mar 2009
8291 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:15 pm to
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
11673 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:19 pm to
I would pay 10 grand extra for an analogue truck.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76834 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:19 pm to
Why do you refuse to copy/paste from the articles you share? It isn't hard, you should be able to figure it out.
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
27261 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:38 pm to
quote:

Why do you refuse to copy/paste from the articles you share? It isn't hard, you should be able to figure it out.




Damned if you do damned if you don't. Was their anything in the article I should have specifically pasted. Do tell and I will just for you.
Posted by lurking
Member since Nov 2022
3640 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:41 pm to
quote:

“OH MY GOD! Someone might learn my plans for picking up a Costco rotisserie chicken on the way home!”


This is such a simplistic view. Perfect example of the mentality that led to the GOP conceding just about every institution over the last 40+ years.

Dat GDP doe
This post was edited on 9/30/26 at 12:42 pm
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76834 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 12:59 pm to
quote:

Was their anything in the article I should have specifically pasted.

Yeah............any of it.
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
27261 posts
Posted on 9/30/26 at 3:09 pm to


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Geouge had started a smalltime diesel operation in his mother’s garage in Hendersonville, North Carolina, his senior year of high school. As emissions systems on diesel trucks grew more constraining throughout the early 2000s, Geouge started writing “delete” software tunes that let trucks disobey the systems and regain their horsepower.

That got farmers’ and truckers’ rigs out of the emissions handicap, or “limp” mode. It also snowballed into a multi-million-dollar business and earned widespread renown for Geouge, at least in Ford aftermarket circles.....

In late autumn 2019, Geouge spent 20 hours of garage time dismantling and scouring his 2017 F350 for a GPS tracking device.

He found none.

But he found the “black box” telematics modem – standard in newer-model vehicles – the satellite radio antenna, and the GPS hardware. He ripped them out.

Jackson said she was able to ditch the grey SUVs after that.

Geouge stripped telematics devices from another of their couple’s vehicles, and the grey Toyotas fell away from that one too, he said.

Geouge reasoned that investigators were using his own vehicles’ data-transmitting hardware to track him and Jackson......

On July 3 of this year, President Donald Trump pardoned Geouge and eight other diesel techs.


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