google in s car would strike it off my list
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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I don't drive much anymore, but keep my low-mileage 2008 minivan in good condition in the garage, although selling it would make more financial sense and free up space in the garage, because I know one day I might need a car more often again, and I want one that isn't a rolling corporate surveillance nightmare.
This post reminds me I need to change the oil.
To be fair, there is also a corporate surveillance nightmare outside your car. Your route will be tracked by corporate street cameras using your licence place, to be stored in datacenters alongside with still images of your face and the faces of others on board if the cameras can catch those. Those images are then put through facial recognition and emotional expression analysis. This information is then brokered for profit and for fascism.
Of course if you have your phone with you, its microphone will record constantly and send a transcript to data brokers, its phone connection will ping off cell phone towers to independently track your location, your keystrokes are tracked and sent to data brokers, etc.
If you care about privacy, the only answer is revolution.
That other answer on a smaller scale would be going full off-grid, self-sustained, no tech. But that isn’t feasible for most people, so yeah..
Revolution…