US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. - eviltoast
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
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A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.
  • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

    I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data