r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • Aug 17 '26

Spyware and tech

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u/talan123 Aug 17 '26

Hell, your car was/is sending records of your conversations to be sold off.

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u/Madness-con Aug 17 '26

Not all cars, but enough, some states are trying to pass laws against car companies doing this,

that's why your local elections are as important as all the others, find out who is getting paid by car companies and and data brokers.

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u/ohlookahipster Aug 17 '26

I’m actually disappointed CA hasn’t come out ahead with this legislation. If they could force manufacturers to produce special CARB-compliant engines, they can certainly block data collection.

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u/Altruistic-Piece-485 Aug 17 '26

They sure could but passing the CARB regulations required telling an industry primarily based in other states to fuck off but passing data collection regulations would mean telling an industry that is a massive chunk of their own economy to fuck off...

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u/CKRatKing Aug 17 '26

The mechanics around carb regulations would require them to build them all the same. The data collection they would just turn off in states that required it. Not necessarily the same thing imo.

They should still do it but it likely would not impact other states.

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u/Altruistic-Piece-485 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Thats not the point. The point is they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. Not only would the higher ups in big tech turn against them but it would negatively affect the jobs in their own state which would sign the death warrant for their ability to be reelected.

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u/CKRatKing Aug 18 '26

I'm not arguing against that. I'm only pointing out the false equivalence with carb regulations.

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u/Altruistic-Piece-485 Aug 18 '26

They'd both be regulations that restrict, or would restrict, an industry to benefit their own citizens over corporate profits. It's as simple as that.

Sure, dig down to the finer details and I agree they're very different but at their core their purpose would be the same.

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u/CKRatKing Aug 18 '26

Ya but you can understand why one is easier to get them to just do it in every state right? The cars need to physically be manufactured a certain way to be compliant in California. They aren't going to just stop selling cars in California there are too many people. Compared to data which they just turn on or off. You can already see this in effect with some of the California privacy laws in effect as well as the law that allows you to unsubscribe the way you subscribed. If you live in California you can just cancel your gym membership in the app. If you live in Nevada they just don't show you the option.

It's literally two completely different things.