OnStar tracks even after canceled. - Page 1

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Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service. OnStar began e-mailing customers Monday about its update to the privacy policy, which grants OnStar the right to sell that GPS-derived data in an anonymized format. Adam Denison, a spokesman for the General Motors subsidiary, said OnStar does not currently sell customer data, but it reserves that right. He said both the new and old privacy policies allow OnStar to chronicle a vehicle’s every movement  

Ohhhhhh, that should make ..... someone worry....... is that someone.... you? 

I mean really, just think about the person whose job it is to check out where the heck all these strangers are going! Makes me laugh, really. I couldn't think of a more boring job, except for stuffing envelopes, maybe.

OnStar also listens in on conversations......

1984 is coming very quickly.....

Beetree,
why do you even bother?

Sm,
it's a waste of time to try to enlighten the majority of people, they neither care or understand the implications.
I say they deserve what's to come.
OnStar can be dissabled.

On a side note, possibly for Preston,
I observed a black, unmarked military helocopter today circling an area along the river and my hilltop.
It stayed for more than a half an hour just making low altitude circles like searching for something, or evading radar as a training exercise, I dunno.
No one seemed to make much of it here, same O same O.


It's here now btw, Orwell was right about the watching part, wrong about who is doing the watching though.

Moons.

 

What is supposed to be so new or unexpected? You KNEW Onstar was a way to track your every move and that police have used it in criminal investigations, didn't you? I have to partially disagree, Beetree. Depending on who it is and where they go, those On star folks might actually get a giggle.

Every coin has two sides, something like Onstar has it's use's but as with all of your modern electronic gadgets it can also be abused.
Why would you assume it would be an individual at a desk monitoring your movements, that's just being naive.

Personally I would not give the power to disable my vehicle to anyone else, yet that is a major selling point with some Onstar systems.

These things might appeal to the wealthy, they are used to being waited on and protected from every thing by others.

Yeah if I had the BMW I'd want to find it for sure, but I still wouldn't go along with giving up control over it's use, nor do I want my movements entered into someone's database.

If fact, I'm fed up with new cars and the electronic nightmare that comes from sensors and onboard computers, back to the 70's for me when it comes to my cars and trucks.

Far less head aches and much easier cheaper repairs.

I'd gladly trade my cell phone for pay phones on street corners once more.
But then that would mean you could not walk through Wally World with a phone stuck to your head, or while driving.


As for alien abductions, everyone knows tin foil works quite well and is affordable.
Har har.

These invasions of privacy are nothing new, people believe it's all for their own good and to provide security.
That's a shame for the rest of us who realize it's not.


Moons.

Poor you, Moons, living in the modern age. And they make you wear seat belts, now, too! Good thing you are here to figure out all the bad things and get to worry about it all, while the rest of us go on blithely ignorant of all our puppet strings, and end up living out our lives, happily. Meanwhile, I just love being able to GPS my family, it is mommy's favorite app!

Mystere, I think Sitasmom is worried someone will follow her to the end of the rainbow and find out where she's hiding her pot of gold.  

"These invasions of privacy are nothing new, people believe it's all for their own good and to provide security."


It doesn't really matter whether you have Onstar or not as far as your movements being tracked.  More and more police cars are being fitted with license plate scanners that not only run your plate but record the coordinates of the vehicle when and where the plate was scanned.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they're on all municipal vehicles.