Your Car Stores Your Text Messages – Law Enforcement Can Retrieve Them Anytime,

[livingston]

Your Car Stores Your Text Messages – Law Enforcement Can Retrieve Them Anytime,​

it is not a violation of privacy for your car to automatically store text and call data from your cell phone, following a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Modern convenience often comes with a price of sacrificed privacy, but in this case, the plaintiffs claimed they were unaware of what they were signing away when they connected their smartphones to their cars.


A class-action lawsuit brought against the car manufacturers Ford, General Motors, Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen asserted that under the Washington State Privacy Act, drivers’ privacy had been violated due to the fact that “the vehicle’s system downloads all text messages and call logs from Plaintiffs’ cellphones as soon as they are connected.”

Your Car Stores Your Texts - A Federal Court Just Rejected a Lawsuit to Prevent Law Enforcement from Retrieving Them

It is legal for your car to automatically store text and call data from your cell phone, following a ruling from the 9th Circuit.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[ManualF150]

@kev74 already beat you to it...

https://nygunforum.com/threads/your-car-stores-your-text-messages.60956/

 

[livingston]

@kev74 already beat you to it...

https://nygunforum.com/threads/your-car-stores-your-text-messages.60956/

We all think alike

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[libertysnake]

And people think me misguided for driving an older car that has none of this bullshit.

 

[Grimscale]

it is not a violation of privacy for your car to automatically store text and call data from your cell phone,

No, but it IS a violation of privacy for automakers to:
1) download that data to their own servers
2) provide that data to law enforcement without a warrant
3) sell that data without your knowledge and consent

Regardless of what the bought-and-paid-for 9th Circus says.

Once companies must compensate people for their data, all of this ad sales bullshit will dry up.

 

[FP1201]

And people think me misguided for driving an older car that has none of this bullshit.

My BOV is an OBS Ford Truck and while it does have EFI/Electronic Ignition, I CAN swap it out for a Breaker Points Distributor and either LPG/NG Carb or gasoline and it'll keep going as long as there's fuel to feed it.