Comment by beforeolives
4 years ago
The more concerning thing about the car data is that the manafacturers resell it to third parties and those third parties have the right to resell it again. It's a mess.
As a comparison, I don't know if much of Google's data ever leaves Google.
i'm getting the impression that iot providers have far, far lower privacy standards vs dedicated tech providers. This to me indicates that they don't take the internet capability of their kettles/cars seriously enough. It's just a gimmick. This is not a constructive way to advance iot.
Every data broker out there says a prayer every night that we (as a society) continue to focus our attention on Google (an absolute saint by comparison) and ignore what phone companies, cable companies, browser extensions, gaming apps, smart tvs, etc. etc. do with our data.
> This to me indicates that they don't take the internet capability of their kettles/cars seriously enough. It's just a gimmick.
Of course it is, and of course they don't. There are exactly two reasons why stuff like cars or kettles get connected to the Internet:
1) A value-add gimmick to justify a price hike on what's pretty much a commodity product;
2) A way to lock you into paying (with money or data) for a cloud service, using a physical appliance as an anchor.
Actual utility of an Internet-connected appliance doesn't even enter the picture.