• @IzzyScissor
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    882 days ago

    I live in a small, rural community. The county sheriff’s department just announced how they bought the GPS tracking data for every vehicle in the county and how it’s going to “help calm traffic because they can predict where people are going to be speeding and can have an officer waiting”

    The pre-crime department is starting and no one batted an eye.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      132 days ago

      Every time I hear something like this I’m glad I bought an old car without any connectivity.

      • @leadore
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        42 days ago

        My car is a 2012, I’ll be holding onto it until it falls apart.

      • @IzzyScissor
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        72 days ago

        Same, for now. Although, we have two ICE vehicles and want to swap to electric. I haven’t looked, but I can’t imagine there’s a great selection of electric, but ‘dumb’ in the US, considering GPS was mandatory for new vehicles in … 2016, I think?

        I’ve also heard people say you can just pull the fuse for the GPS, but I’m still skeptical.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          You can choose om the software if you want location services or not, but everyone leaves it on. This is what is leaked. If you turn it off it doesn’t report in location centrally at all.