I remember when it used to be sort of an urban legend: new cars’ electronics spy on you, collect information, always ready to rat you out to the government.
It ain’t so legendary anymore.
TV commentator Tucker Carlson bought a new truck… and “immediately” returned it to the dealer when he saw this message on his dashboard:
“Stop, we’re downloading information from the Internet.”
Which the car owner did not ask the car to do.
They wanted that data, Carlson said, “to provide to the insurance companies to wreck your life.”
Expansion-hungry government and high technology: what could go wrong?