this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
718 points (99.2% liked)

World News

52530 readers
2350 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

How would the Toyota CEO not know about this? Weird. /s

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

All carmakers are doing that, not just Toyota. If someone posts a similar report about China's BYD you are whatabouted to death, but if it is about a non-Chinese carmaker, there are no whataboutisms.

Is the data collection good or bad now? Should we have digital sovereignty in Europe and other democracies or just import ChEaP cHiNeSe CaRs?

[Edit typo.]

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

similar report about China’s BYD you are whatabouted to death

Nobody pretends that BYD cars don't do that. Plenty of articles get posts here trying to create a false impression that China is uniquely bad in this regard.

You can have data sovereignty by mandating as much, Chinese cars already are built to comply with regulations of their markets.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Mihies@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

At least in the EU we should have opt in for any communication. I don't really get it why there is no such law in place, even more so when we have GDPR and annoying cookie dialogs. 🤷‍♂️

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone know any good reference projects for building a ras pi based car stereo replacement?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I'm fucking done with cars. Can't afford em anyway.

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Car insurance is a scam.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›