Re: Thoroughly illegal
And they get around it by arguing that they are not tracking the "person" they are tracking the performance of the "car'.
How hard would it be for the car to upload data according to where it is in the world? In the US where there are very few (and weak) laws about data slurping, the cars will be uploading everything they can sense. In Germany, the data upload will be truncated to only what they can get away with. If the laws change, an update is pushed out to change what it reports.
One of the first "features" that government's are going to have implemented is the "kill switch". The police will be able to cause a car to slow down and stop with the flick of a switch while being able to leave things such as power steering operational. They might even be able to tell the car to self drive to a designated location and park with the doors locked and the windows up. That functionality might be harder to update when it gets hacked.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
