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People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Glass0448@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In a civilized world, heads would roll over this.

It used to be that when someone used the phrase "in a civilized world", it was intended to move you back into it. Nowadays it just feels like wild gesticulating at an impossible state...

[–] Glass0448@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

It is a civilized world. All autonomous worker drones are using 94% of cognitive resources just justifying maintenance resources. And the ones who accidentally got better CPUs are too small in population to matter.