Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you - IMDEA Networks
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Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signals from more than 20,000 vehicles, revealing a hidden privacy risk and highlighting the need for stronger security measures in future vehicle sensor systems. Most...
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    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      2 months

      LOL who said anything about ethics? This is an unbelievably stupid strawman.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        indeed, you said this:

        The fact that it was legally mandated is good evidence that it is.

        but their point was laws are not always made with good intentions and safety in mind. that’s not to say TPMS is required for secret surveillance, but that there being a law for it does not immediately mean there’s good purpose for that law.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          2 months

          indeed, you said this

          Indeed, that had nothing to do with ethics.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2 months

            yes it has, when a law not only just does not have good purpose, but even malicious, but even when the added safety is not outweighed by the bad things it does

          • __hetz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2 months

            Do you believe law and ethics are separable? Does your “these systems save lives” not speak to the very reasoning employed to codify an ethical position into the law of the land?

            • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
              2 months

              Why are we still talking about ethics? I’m not going to entertain this strawman any further.