undefined | Better HN

0 pointsoarsinsync7y ago0 comments

Does "car data" include locations? There's not many people that start from area A (~500m^2 around your home) and go to area Z (~500m^2 around your office) every weekday morning, and back again every weekday evening.

And yep, this applies to anything that offers vague rudimentary location monitoring.

0 comments

mixmastamyk7y ago

Correct, many folks don’t realize how much can be derived about them from even anonymous data.

Personally not interested in all this auto pilot stuff anyway. Deceleration when approaching an object and rudimentary lane assist are all I’d care for and shouldn’t require machine learning.

FireBeyond7y ago

Yup. Give me your rough starting location and ending location, one inbound phone number and one outbound and you can probably be uniquely identified.

goshx7y ago

It does include location if you stop at a supercharger. They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly. I don't think that's one you could opt-out.

mixmastamyk7y ago

> They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly.

Not sure why that would be true. Perhaps it can help them a tiny bit, but not worth my privacy.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsoarsinsync7y ago0 comments

And yep, this applies to anything that offers vague rudimentary location monitoring.

0 comments

mixmastamyk7y ago

Correct, many folks don’t realize how much can be derived about them from even anonymous data.

Personally not interested in all this auto pilot stuff anyway. Deceleration when approaching an object and rudimentary lane assist are all I’d care for and shouldn’t require machine learning.

FireBeyond7y ago

Yup. Give me your rough starting location and ending location, one inbound phone number and one outbound and you can probably be uniquely identified.

goshx7y ago

It does include location if you stop at a supercharger. They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly. I don't think that's one you could opt-out.

mixmastamyk7y ago

> They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly.

Not sure why that would be true. Perhaps it can help them a tiny bit, but not worth my privacy.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse