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No schooling, no work, no Social Security number, no taxes, no medical care. Damn, now Iām getting paranoid. Where the hell is the aluminum foil?
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Good job. A+ gold star for you. Now lets talk about the actual topic.
Guys, you know we can hear both of you...........
I know what headers are. Well enough to never use a search engine to help me find them. Between 'google' and 'IT professional' (and no further context), your post read like you were talking about something specific to the IT world that I would not know anything about.
Yeah. And on that note: words are cheap. Instead of giving virtual gold stars, send some PayPal love.
Part of my point was that I agree with that point of view, however, Ford is providing a product and it is 100% on your to determine if you want that product or not. You cannot be a customer but also dictate what the vendor sells. If you don't like the goods, go to another vendor who's goods you prefer. It's a pretty simple concept tbh.
The flip side is that this data mining is not a consumer part of any physical product especially once said data goes outside of Ford.
I'm aware that there's plenty of other tracking going on, but it still comes back to the idea that the individual ought to have at least some control over what gets collected, who collects it, and what they're allowed to do with it after that.
No smart phone here, just a basic flip phone. That's not out of any fear of being tracked, mainly it's because fancier phones don't offer me anything I'd use often enough and because they won't fit in the available pocket. Pay cash for most things because that's the way I've always lived. Refuse requests to track my location as they come up even though I only use a laptop for internet-related stuff and it rarely goes out of the house.
I get what you're saying, but if the data isn't being collected (or is blocked from being collected) then there isn't any data to be sold.
All or nothing. My way or the highway from Ford's POV.
I have opted out of a few things. Enough that images on certain newsletter pages no longer work, which is not a problem.
Data mining is completely legal and again, in the agreed upon privacy policy. They have every legal right to data mine while you use their products and services. The only state that allows users to opt out of implied agreements in relation to data privacy is California (big bad wolf for most ppl in these forums).
Again. You do. Even more powerfully so, you do with your dollar.
Then please realize that you're outside of the normal use-case on this. Most people are not going to live off the grid, as you are doing, and thus need advice that match the way their most likely to use it.
There's always data being collected, digital or otherwise. Even when not using a digital means, for example, when you go to purchase your vehicle, there are data and statistics being drawn from that interaction such as zip code purchased, cost of vehicle, purchase type, etc.
As the vendor, I would do exactly the same thing. Ford's one and only job is to make money and figure out ways to make more of it every day. They don't owe us anything.
This one is essentially sending real time info from the "black box" type of data of what's going on with the car. Geeez, talk about Big Brother.
Ted Kaczynski was ahead of the times.
