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GM's OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe?

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Originally, the terms and conditions stated that OnStar could only collect information on your vehicle's location during a theft recovery or in the midst of sending emergency services your way. That has apparently changed. Now, OnStar says that it has the right to collect and sell personal, yet supposedly anonymous information on your vehicle, including speed, location, seat belt usage and other information.


WOW they keep collecting your information even after you cancel the service...Nah theres no corporate greed right Teaparty...somehow some will spin this as the Unions fault



GM's OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe? [UPDATE]
 
It's a Real World physical form of Data mining.

An extremely lucrative venture.

But don't worry, when you finally get home, facebook and google will also monitor every site you visit.
 
It's a Real World physical form of Data mining.

An extremely lucrative venture.

But don't worry, when you finally get home, facebook and google will also monitor every site you visit.


Nope not me...facebooks site isnt even in my history and I use Bing and Yahoo...rather than google...not that they are much better...but im for the underdog kinda guy
 
I started to reply until I got down to the fallacious arguement. Not worth the effort. Well, O.K. I did reply.
 
I started to reply until I got down to the fallacious arguement. Not worth the effort. Well, O.K. I did reply.

what fallacious argument ?
 
Originally, the terms and conditions stated that OnStar could only collect information on your vehicle's location during a theft recovery or in the midst of sending emergency services your way. That has apparently changed. Now, OnStar says that it has the right to collect and sell personal, yet supposedly anonymous information on your vehicle, including speed, location, seat belt usage and other information.


WOW they keep collecting your information even after you cancel the service...Nah theres no corporate greed right Teaparty...somehow some will spin this as the Unions fault



GM's OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe? [UPDATE]

So GM is no different than other company's who sell your information? How utterly surprising.

Well Ockham, (aka Mr. Fixit) will now give you some options to subvert this evil GM corporation.

1. Don't buy a GM car with Onstar.
2. Don't buy a GM car.
3. Disconnect Onstar by following the instructions found here:

How to Remove an Internal OnStar GPS Antenna - Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com



Ta-da! Done. Next?
 
So GM is no different than other company's who sell your information? How utterly surprising.

Well Ockham, (aka Mr. Fixit) will now give you some options to subvert this evil GM corporation.

1. Don't buy a GM car with Onstar.
2. Don't buy a GM car.
3. Disconnect Onstar by following the instructions found here:

How to Remove an Internal OnStar GPS Antenna - Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com



Ta-da! Done. Next?

As usual you missed the entire point of the article...to be expected though
 
Right Ockham, where was your slam on the Tea Party? If you aren't going to understand the point, why bother?
 
Right Ockham, where was your slam on the Tea Party? If you aren't going to understand the point, why bother?

Onstar is run by the teaparty....who wouldve known <grin>.....perry the teaparty thinks everything corporate is just beautiful thing and everything else well just sucks...especially public workers and social security recipients...but if your neither of those I guess you love the teaparty I do not.
 
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Hmm... I'll be disconnecting the On-Star antenna on my wife's Trailblazer as soon as I get home today. We've never had an active On-Star subscription since the trial period ran out after buying the vehicle, so it's not something we'll miss. ...and they can't monitor what they can't see. :mrgreen:
 
I think this should be illegal.

But then, I believe we have a right to privacy.....silly me.
 
As usual you missed the entire point of the article...to be expected though

I didn't miss it, I ignored the obvious BS and provided a helpful and practical opinion based on fact. You seem surprised corporations would sell names. Is junk mail a new concept to you? :lamo
 
Originally, the terms and conditions stated that OnStar could only collect information on your vehicle's location during a theft recovery or in the midst of sending emergency services your way. That has apparently changed. Now, OnStar says that it has the right to collect and sell personal, yet supposedly anonymous information on your vehicle, including speed, location, seat belt usage and other information.


WOW they keep collecting your information even after you cancel the service...Nah theres no corporate greed right Teaparty...somehow some will spin this as the Unions fault



GM's OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe? [UPDATE]

I can see the benefit of this for local governments. Say, a city wants to know where the hotspots for dangerous driving (i.e. speeding) are. The city contacts GM and buys some data regarding speeds on their local roads, correlates that with the speed limit, and you've got a pretty good sampling of driving speeds - you could even correlate it with time of day so as to shift some cop cars around to discourage "morning rush" speeding!

Same goes with seat belt usage; cities can track the amount of people that comply with local seatbelt regulations before and after they go into effect.
 
I can see the benefit of this for local governments. Say, a city wants to know where the hotspots for dangerous driving (i.e. speeding) are. The city contacts GM and buys some data regarding speeds on their local roads, correlates that with the speed limit, and you've got a pretty good sampling of driving speeds - you could even correlate it with time of day so as to shift some cop cars around to discourage "morning rush" speeding!

Same goes with seat belt usage; cities can track the amount of people that comply with local seatbelt regulations before and after they go into effect.

I'm sure the various levels of government could find many uses for all our private data.
 
I'm sure the various levels of government could find many uses for all our private data.

If the data is anonymous, I don't see how it is private.
 
Nope not me...facebooks site isnt even in my history and I use Bing and Yahoo...rather than google...not that they are much better...but im for the underdog kinda guy

Hahahaha yeah, Microsoft is so much better with your personal information!!
 
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