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6c_6f_76_65 wrote

Read this yesterday and my attention has shifted away from gardening to learning how much of my data I can keep and ways to prevent future collection of my information.

This is an old article: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/wireless-waves-used-to-track-travel-times-1.1054731

I was at a (US)county meeting yesterday and they talked about the equipment they use to determine traffic patterns. They place these rubber hoses across the roadway and a compute device on the side of the road counts the number of passing cars and generates a rough estimate of the weight of the vehicle. In private discussion the company that manufactures the device talked about how it improves accuracy by collecting Bluetooth DUN information from the car's infotainment system and cellular devices. I asked a few vague questions and they said they keep this data! They do not have any mandates to scrub the data, no retention time rules, and does not appear there are any rules/laws that force them to safeguard that data. I can only assume they resell that data as well. I have driven over these devices for the last 10 years and never thought about.

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