A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.

  • @aelwero@lemmy.world
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    118 months ago

    This is clearly and overtly a decision intended to protect the ability of government to conduct warrantless searches by purchase or subpoena of third party information…

    An equivalent tech that would put text messages of government personnel into corporate hands would be labelled a serious threat and addressed with specific legislation.