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Submission + - Car Manufacturers are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net)

Luthair writes: Cory Doctorow points out that car manufacturers have inserted vague clauses in sales agreements which allow them to track your movements. OnStar infamously has done this for some time, even if the vehicle's owner was not a subscriber of their services; though at least on some models one could disable the modem by disconnecting it or removing a fuse.

One also wonders about the legality of the tracking once the car hits the used car market as those individuals would not have agreed to the manufacturers sales agreement.

Submission + - The Tiny Changes That Can Cause an AI to Fail (bbc.com)

Luthair writes: According to the BBC there is growing concern in the machine learning community that as their algorithms are deployed in the real world they can be easily confused by knowledgeable attackers. These algorithms don't process information in the same way humans do, a small sticker placed strategically on a sign could render it invisible to a self driving car.

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