A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.

  • @bzz
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    17 days ago

    This is just some rank and file employee that’s just trying to get that sweet patent bonus money.

  • @[email protected]
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    217 days ago

    Car manufacturers have brilliantly managed to convince me never to buy a car made after ~2015.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 days ago

    It’s gonna be standard practice to pull the cellular modem out of cars when putchased, or at least pull the fuse.

    • @LifeOfChance
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      107 days ago

      They’re gonna tie it into a safety component so it can’t be messed with. Likely they’ll say it’s tied to the emergency system that can alert authorities in the event of an accident.