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Agreed.

Regarding your last sentence though: a likely trend may arise where all EULAs for modern cars include giving consent to the manufacturer to do what they please with the information from the EDR.

This would bypass the discussed bill because the bill allows you to give such consent. I think most people wouldn't be in an uproar about this. Thereby making this bill rather irrelevant; at least tooth-less against protecting the data.

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Like CISPA, then, the bill would be a no-op; at worst, a missed opportunity to add more privacy to the status quo.

Unlike CISPA, however, it means assholes who drive 70MPH down residential side streets in Benzes will be accountable when they cause accidents (Benzes don't have EDRs now). In other words: unlike CISPA, it actually does what it sets out to do.

That's enough of a win for me.

It's for the CHILDREN!!! Yes! that's exactly the kind of bone-headed thinking that's taking us down this path now.

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