Ford Among Companies With Worst Data Privacy Practices

[jkeaton]

I’m pretty much a Luddite. I don’t enjoy the technology that is thrust upon me and choose to use it sparingly. That said, I do have a cell phone. Between that and new BS, and its connectivity, I have no illusions of privacy even with the minimal sharing I’ve selected. They’ll be coming for me!!! ??

Yeah, They will find a way to track you one way or another. Let them watch. I'm pretty boring. Except when I'm at the range,, then I hope they are listening and watching......pewpewpewpew....

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[rocks]

I was always under the impression that most people on this forum used and liked the Ford Pass app very much and used most of the features. Me, I mostly use it to check for recalls and my tire pressure.

and oil monitor % and start the BS.

 

[KidWiff]

Yeah, They will find a way to track you one way or another. Let them watch. I'm pretty boring. Except when I'm at the range,, then I hope they are listening and watching......pewpewpewpew....

I hear ya. tracking me would be like watching paint dry. The person doing the tracking would likely die of boredom.

 

[MJE]

Yeah, They will find a way to track you one way or another. Let them watch. I'm pretty boring. Except when I'm at the range,, then I hope they are listening and watching......pewpewpewpew....

This is pretty much my take too. Despite the fact that I have zero trust in government really, how interested are they really in my trips over say any one other individual. Since they outlawed gun purchases here, my pre covid trips to the range haven’t picked up again. Maybe I should & they can track that, before firearm ownership is outlawed altogether here.

 

[MJE]

I’d say now that at least Ford provides features like securicode (sadly going away) & app integration (like almost everybody else I enjoy my phone too much to really care that I’m tracked everywhere & sold as a piece of data…) included with the purchase. It seems if I understand right, that GM makes you pay for the privilege of them selling your data via on star to get useful features.

 

[PugDad]

The only way around it is to go off the grid and live in the mountains somewhere without electronics.

You can limit what they collect. Or at least try. No need to let them know how often you go and pee. In my case with late night bathroom calls I would keep the data collectors busy!

 

[PugDad]

What about your cell phone? It's the world we live in now.

I don’t own one. Life is just great without one.

 

[sajohnson]

https://fordauthority.com/2023/09/ford-among-companies-with-worst-data-privacy-practices/

Great article, thanks!

The Ford section of the Mozilla article is linked from it. It's eye-opening:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ford/

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