Specifically, it is about the data that the car collects from the vehicle, the driver, and what the driver does in and with the vehicle - including reading and recording his mobile phone. This information is used to enforce certain styles and practices of driving.
If certain things happen; the car will compel you to leave the road, stop and switch off the engine. If the computer doesn't want you to do something, the car won't do it.
The logged information is also shared with Ford, law enforcement, and anyone else that the company deems to be a responsible authority (plus, conditions of use are explicitly changeable in an open-ended way, without obligation to inform the owner).
Your car can (and, soon, presumably will) report you for what it regards as any kind of traffic, or other, offences; and provides "the authorities" with the necessary "objective" information to prove your guilt.
All of which you have "agreed to" in advance by consenting to the terms of service. Condemned by your own will.
The whole video is relevant, but the main information comes from 4:40.
This video made quite an impact on me; because it is representative of the top-down, totalitarian agenda of omni-surveillance and micro control.
It is not something that might happen, "the internet of things" is here and it is now, it is the society we live-in; and - although nobody is asking for this stuff - people are nonetheless paying big money to purchase technology with these features.
You can't get the latest tech without the totalitarian terms of service. And people really want the tech - or else get it forced-upon them by regulations.
As far as I can see, there is only one thing that stands between The West and a society of totalitarian Ahrimanic evil; and that is societal collapse.
In other words; so long as The System remains, it will be implementing omni-surveillance and total control - to the best of its ability...
But that ability is declining, because The West has purposive self-destruction baked-in; and will sooner or later collapse. Already The System cannot actually implement its own plans (as was evident through 2020).
There are many, many factors that guarantee that soon The System will enter a positive-feedback failure; when failure in sub-systems will compound, accelerate - and the whole thing will implode (with or without external intervention on top of that).
(Also - because The System is destroying itself; the later the collapse happens, the more complete it will be.)
I find it chilling to recognize (yet again!) that we are ruled by an obviously evil-serving ruling-managerial class on the one side - who are determined to impose a materialist nightmare on the masses (and themselves!); and with a short-termist, passively-servile, novelty-and-convenience-addicted mass population on the other - who see no further than to get increments of status, comfort and fun.
And that's it! Because the "public morality" of the West is a tissue of (thinly-) disguised-wickedness. And those who oppose the officially-leftist Litmus Test ethic - are merely proposing a more efficiently hedonic System, a more nationally-functional totalitarianism.
As I said: it's a race between totalitarianism and collapse - will the one happen before the other supervenes?
Things are much worse than (almost-) everybody thinks they are!
What really dismays me is not so much that the die is cast - and there is nothing significant that you or I can materially do to stop and reverse this manic societal self-destructiveness... Because it is rooted in an overwhelming majority a-theistic nihilism; is, therefore, ultimately desired.
What dismays me is the attitude. The mixture of denial and indifference. The dumb "farmyard ethic" of thinking that prevails. The bland-nice hand-wringing - the attempts to defeat totalitarianism by more regulation, more layers of bureaucracy. The grasping at straws of assuming somebody or another in the leadership class will save us from abuses - and that we can select these goodies through approved mechanisms such as voting, "direct action", pressure groups, whatever.
All this is avoiding the essential.
Spiritually we can and must understand - make explicitly conscious - what is happening and that it is evil; and instead of inviting evil into our hearts - inwardly reject (i.e. repent) the evil totalitarianism embodies.
People must stop being stupid, lazy, and eagerly-distracted. Everyone has the God-given capability to think sufficiently to choose salvation and reject damnation in whatever situation he finds himself - and everyone is responsible for his own thinking.
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I work in insurance, which has for decades been the enforcement arm of the government, closing the few gaps in its legal powers because “voluntary.” Since my first day on the job, I have been questioning the “Omni” stuff, but I just get blank stares. Every once in a while a more thoughtful person will make the typical “right wing” argument about doing the evil thing to stop the other thing or at least be less wasteful while doing the evil thing…at this point I just minimize my involvement, repent what I can’t avoid, and pray the monstrous dreams of my clients and colleagues can never be realized. How did this happen to so many? I still don’t really understand it.
At some point humanity will end up having to take all the internet infrastructure down to get their freedom back. AI will probably be the big driver that results in the revolt against the internet.
Bruce, why do you think so many of us who can afford new cars are sticking with our old, but still eminently functional, vehicles,,,My excellent older Japanese vehicle doesn't lecture me, spy on me, or report me to the authorities..It also doesn't subject me to advertising if I play music....And if it had to be replaced, which is unlikely, it would be with another used vehicle from the same manufacturer....
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