News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Yep. And they can report things like speeding and hard braking events, those get uploaded to data aggregation services so the dealer makes $ selling your data, then your insurance company can buy it from the aggregator and raise your rates because they don’t like how you drive.
That doesn't sound legal, but who knows in America.
There's no question of legality if the don't get caught.
👉🧠✨
You can get tattletale telemetry devices offered by the insurer that will lower your rate if the insurers are happy with your driving. The opposite is true as well, except its buried in your new car purchase contract that the telemetry is collected and sold.
There are also plenty of horror stories of insurance companies trying to cancel insurance for drivers for things like the telemetry box reporting that the car is on a 30mph limit road that runs alongside a motorway that the car is actually on so it looks like the driver is doing 50mph over the speed limit.
If you get your insurance cancelled then you have to disclose it to future insurers for a long ass time afterwards, and if they then decide to let you insure (which a lot wont) then the cost to insure after having a policy cancelled is reportedly crippling.
I have never had an insurers telemetry box in my car and i never will. i'd rather pay more up front