Jeep Tracking Driving Behavior Now

[Da Capt]

Yep. There have been a few legal battles.US consumer protection and privacy laws are pretty lame and most companies who are keen on harvesting and selling data use the "implied consent" model meaning in the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA), you agree to let them track and sell your data by using their services. Most of the time to avoid legal trouble, it's assigned a random number, but it's still tracked and can be sold. Apple, Google, and I believe Samsung have all gotten whacked for this process by some of the more serious privacy law states. It was harder previously but they sell the data sets to Marketing Warehouses, and either there, or the customers (companies) who buy them then use algorithms to sort through it and figure out a buyer profile/ demographic for each data set. With the proliferation of AI, it's gotten easier for companies to do this.


As the saying goes: If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. Data is the new big money item, and it cuts both ways.

Unfortunately, part of living in the modern world. If you Jeep isn't tracking you, your phone definitely is...

I guess Opt out of whatever you can, and do your best on the rest. That's coming from someone who has worked a number of years in Marketing and IT.

Yr correct and ford is trying to allow for adds to pop on yr screen from listening to u in the truck so they can put ads you’d like. I have a few different things I do to try my best to stay under the radar but it’s almost impossible right now and don’t seem to be getting any better.

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[Husky Man]

"Out of nowhere, this puppy ran into the road..."

Yeah, them dayum Black Labs running out into the road at night are a problem too

Golden Retrievers are much better Jeep Dawgs anyway

Doug