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Spy-EVs? How is that not fear mongering?
It literally says why up in the blurb. Do you want it to be normal for any state to have covert access to security cameras you own?
If I had to own a car right now I would be extremely annoyed. Seemingly every major production car right now is a data nightmare.
I think calling it fear mongering against EVs is right in the sense that it's not exclusive to EVs. All cars have cameras, microphones and sensors these days and are connected, so legislation should deal with that properly.
We agree on that
It is pretty much true for all modern cars.
Yes, but not all modern cars are made in countries with a dictatorial government seeking to spread their system across the globe. As others already wrote, the data collected by cars must be enforced in some sort of GDPR, but I doubt that governments like China's are even willing to comply.
Like the US?
There is more than one dictatorship in the world unfortunately, but I guess you understand which country I referred to in this specific case.
Yeah, I just don't agree it's the biggest problem in the world currently.
It is certainly a very big problem that needs to be addressed, otherwise it could soon be the biggest problem in the world.
To be honest, if I had to choose a dictatorship to be conquered by I'd pick China over the US hands down. My antipathy for racist macho morons runs deep.
What do you propose?
But that's not the European way of doing things! First we wait till the problem is big enough that it can't be ignored anymore, then we start discussing if we should do anything about it.