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| Brumby:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 24, 2020, 07:25:35 pm --- --- Quote from: Domagoj T on February 24, 2020, 07:08:01 pm ---Because by the time the car is reported stolen, it has already been disassembled and the manufacturer can't pull the data from the car. By sending the data live, you are maximizing the amount of available information. Don't get me wrong, I'm not comfortable with it either, I'm just offering a possible explanation for the practice. --- End quote --- It still doesn't check out. You'd record data for one or maybe three days so someone has chance to notify the company. You'd keep what you have and start recording from there. There's no apparent reason to have weeks of detailed history of the owner on record other than that they can. --- End quote --- The real world explanation could be rather mundane - and typical of management, especially in systems development ......... After the capture, transmission and recording of data was operational, stage 2 - the long term storage policy - got caught up in "discussion". Once it was determined that a couple of hundred dollars spent on storage could hold years of data, the whole exercise got shelved, "for later". |
| rdl:
I don't see how the car companies or insurance companies or anyone else has a right to this kind of information by default. Surely the owner of the vehicle has to authorize it first, otherwise how could it even be legal? |
| Brumby:
It's called: "small print". |
| JPortici:
It's funny though, i didn't receive a GDPR consent form :P (from the mfg. However i did give consent, to the insurance company for the black box i installed) |
| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: rdl on February 25, 2020, 06:21:23 am ---I don't see how the car companies or insurance companies or anyone else has a right to this kind of information by default. Surely the owner of the vehicle has to authorize it first, otherwise how could it even be legal? --- End quote --- Yep, you do. If you don't read contracts before you sign, you can only blame yourself. |
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