Judge rules it’s fine for car makers to intercept your text messages::A judge has refused to bring back a class action lawsuit against four car manufacturers because the privacy violation did not meet the WPA standard.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I guess I fundamentally misunderstand what’s going on here…

    If you want to use your phone hands free thtough the info-tainment system, it kind of NEEDS to have access to your calls, contacts, and texts, yeah?

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      1 year ago

      It should be able to access them from your phone instead of the cell service.

      Using the word ‘intercepts’ makes it sound like they’re doing the latter, although that may not be the case.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it sounds to me like if a call or text comes to your phone, the car catches it before it reaches your phone because the two are connected and the car has priority access.