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Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I remember when the rebuttal everyone used to all of these countless privacy infractions was "I don't have anything to hide" as if life is going to be ideal always and that the person handling the information won't use it for their own benefit. As usual this sort of misplaced paranoia people have about their cars doesn't justify the existence of the app. Things like this are more of a threat vector than a tool.

I do not welcome this CCTV in the bathroom everyone is a channel dystopia that too many have bought into.