Comment by kkfx

Ladies and gentleman if we want a fair society we MUST:

- mandate FLOSS by law, starting from the first SLoC, meaning no company can sudden publish software to sell something with it, the software must be published since the day zero of it's development or the hw/sw/service can't be on sale;

- mandate local first for anything, so connected cars are ok, but they just offer a simple DynDNS mechanism the owner can add to it's own domain name as a subdomain like car.mydomain.tld and reach a relevant set of APIs the car offer. All data collected by the OEM must pass though the car owners systems, in an open and readable and documented form.

If this is not mandate, by popular acclaim, surveillance capitalism will stay, since it's the new tool to know and conform the masses. Surveilled people are known, and knowing they are surveilled try to behave in a "social norm" way, fearing the judgment/social score, as a result people evolve toward slaves who obey those who establish and update current social norms. We all know cooperation is needed to do anything, those who compete then need many who cooperate, obeying their orders, to craft anything. In the past was religion, then money, now social scoring the way to stiffen the masses. Such powerful tool is not something anyone accept to loose without a desperate and limitless fight. Only a large public reaction can force a change.