> will require a warrant for more than seven days of location data
The first matter is: what entitles automakers to keep any location data.
The first matter is: what entitles automakers to keep any location data.
The government privacy/rights exposure is just a side effect, it's not some governmental conspiracy.
They want to sell you. Your location information, implied demographics, etc inform advertising and marketing.
Even if they said no to the government, the government can either get it from the second-line databases that track you, or in sufficient cases, the three letter agencies certainly have all the information from either the automakers or, again, the next round of consumer information databases that buy the info from the auto companies.
Well it has some definite drawbacks, does it not. Would it not be better to have custom positioning systems, with data stored in secure repositories?
... And it's not just theft, it's also "wow this parking lot is huge..."
Well, of course: I meant "a secure repository /for the user/" :) I.e.: you could trust the law (as well done and respected), or you could stay on the safe side. Taking a look around, I'd take the safer side.
> "wow this parking lot is huge..."
Like opening a trunk through feed waggling or radio control of windows for those who are prone to leaving open sunroofs during storms - at the cost of adding complexities and possibly exposure to faults and malice... The first violently blinking one being "no need to press a button to open the car anymore, proximity suffices".
Everyone makes their own decisions on tradeoffs: the option - which they may like, which may leave them indifferent, which they may not want at all - should not be shoved in the throat of the users.
And with the important detail that the article reveals (see the quote) that they keep at least weeks worth of data - which does not sound necessary.