Comment by troyvit
1 year ago
The auto industry has fought tooth and nail against safety requirements[1] and still fights today against more stringent fuel standards[2][3].
Not only would they fight regulations like data safety that would open them to potential litigation when lose the data or sell it to the wrong player, but they would win. Privacy isn't the political football that the environment is, and you can't point to death statistics like you can with safety issues.
[1] https://www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/revisionist-histo... [2] https://texasclimatenews.org/2022/03/19/decades-of-lobbying-... [3] https://www.cbtnews.com/auto-lobby-group-warns-fuel-efficien...
they fight it because it works and impacts their bottom line, i dont see how that's evidence that regulation is ineffective as a whole because people can just find loopholes
I don't think regulation is ineffective as a whole, but I do think that regulation won't be able to curb the industry's hunger for data or its incompetence in how it collects it. I believe this is the case because the industry will fight just as vigorously to collect this data while regulators will be less invested in stopping it. I believe regulators will be less invested in stopping it because there has been a steady degradation in our expectation of privacy in this area since smart phones. Any auto industry lobbyist just has to point out that tracking your driving habits and selling that data to insurance companies is little different from what google and apple already do.
The fact that they will fight it does not mean we should not try it. At least in EU the GDPR gives quite a bit of power to regulate this.