Over the past couple years, we’ve gradually seen the internet of
everything give way to the internet of things, with more and more of the
technologies
we deal with in day to day life getting connected and autonomously
taking care of tasks we used to have to do for ourselves. It’s supposed
to be liberating, but does it also have a dark side? Just what – and who
– are we letting into our lives?
Is your car watching you?
On January 8, 2014, Ford’s Jim Farley said something at a conference that he would go on to regret for a long time. His company knew when people broke the law, he joked, because it could tell exactly where they were from the GPS in their cars. Unfortunately for him, his audience immediately identified that while he may not personally be spying on them, he was talking about something that was entirely possible. People everywhere began to think of their connected cars in a different way. GPS, built-in phones, insurance company telemetrics – all these gadgets collect information about us and all of them have the potential to share this data with others. Read More: AutosVocie.com
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