Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

[BP]

If the hardware was manufactured in the US or by an American owned supplier you can rest assured the NSA has some kind of a back door engineered into it.

With the way things are going the federal government will be our insurance company, if we are allowed to drive ourselves at all.

[FATHERFORD]

I dont have a car new enough to worry about this issue.

Do you carry a cell phone with you in your old cars?

[juiceweezl]

Can't they get the same data from your cell phone? I mean when it's moving at 80 mph, it's pretty obvious you're not on foot.

[Chili]

They don't supply it because they haven't found the high bidder yet. Before long, everything will be fully "transparent" and insurance companies will work to be deputized so they can issue tickets/rate increases/cancellations all based on driving style.

At least basing it on driving style makes a hell of a lot more sense than basing it on credit scores and zip codes!

[racrguy]

The NSA doesn't have to breathe down their necks. They can get basically any info they want.

When I said breathing down their necks, I meant "turn over your info."

[Mysticcobrakilla]

I dont have a car new enough to worry about this issue.

X2

[YALE]

Fuck that.


Now that he's said something like that, I bet the NSA is already breathing down their necks.

The NSA doesn't have to breathe down their necks. They can get basically any info they want.

[slow99]

Buy F - no government motors!

[Baron Von Crowder]

I dont have a car new enough to worry about this issue.

[racrguy]

Stop breaking the laws assholes

Fuck that.


Now that he's said something like that, I bet the NSA is already breathing down their necks.

[ram57ta]

Stop breaking the laws assholes

[Sean88gt]

They don't supply it because they haven't found the high bidder yet. Before long, everything will be fully "transparent" and insurance companies will work to be deputized so they can issue tickets/rate increases/cancellations all based on driving style.

[Strychnine]

We all "know" it's probably happening across the board, but I don't think I ever expected anyone to just outright say it like this.

Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

Jan. 8, 2014, 8:16 PM

Ford's Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they're doing it.

Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.

Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems. Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1