State Farm App for Safe Driving Discount

Got an offer from State Farm agent.

Bill this program is really offensive, and very KGB. You are going to track my driving for $10 off insurance? Tell your Commie overlords at State Farm, Go Fuck Yourself, you  Orwellian nightmares.  

My Nissan Rogue has a WiFi sign coming out from the front of the hood of a tiny car icon  on the screen. I wrote to their legal department. They said they would share my data with government "as they saw fit." They would not even need a court order. Needless to say, I am never getting another Nissan again. The owner of the dealership said, what are you talking about. I said, sit in the driver's seat, turn on the car. A long legal disclosure statement comes on the screen. He said, I never saw that, it is a little Big Brother. 


Say, I went over the speed limit ten times on a 5 mile trip. I can get 10 speeding tickets from Pennsylvania State Police on a 10 minute trip to the store. Maybe they can have automatic withdrawal from my bank  account, since there is a 100% chance my crimes have been proven. 

So if I stop at a strip club, State Farm will report me to my wife, and send me Google ads for liquor and for casinos? 

Bill, please, forward this reply to the President of State Farm. This State Farm program proposes to
self report a crime a minute. The GPS, motion sensors and gyroscopes in the smartphone will be 
able to report every instance of crossing the median line. The State Police may then roll out the data
in Traffic Court. Every instance of exceeding the speed limit by 1 mph will be recorded in perfect detail. 
Downloading this State Farm app is a waiver of Fourth and  Fifth Amendment rights.


Tell them, do not worry. Just wait a couple of years. Once driverless cars are on the road, they will 
never violate a single rule of the road. Your one hour nightmare commute will turn into a
4 hour nightmare commute as they maintain proper distance between cars. All crashes will end,
 and you insurance people will never have to pay out a single dime. Just collect our premiums,
 and keep them for yourselves. 


David Behar

Chinese Tech Buys Grindr

Here.

Chinese government will know all personal details and preferences of the homosexuals of the USA.

Sex Offender Registry proponents have catching up to do.

In China, your name and face get plastered on video displays for jaywalking.

Use more than 2 feet of toilet paper in 9 minutes, you are identified, and the toilet paper dispenser locks in the park bathroom.

By 2020, all activities will be tracked by facial recognition, and you will earn a social desirability score, open to public scrutiny.

I have always said the remedy for all legal problems will be technical.

Threat to Privacy is Getting Ubiquitous

The opening screen on my Nissan Rogue states that data on the car will be transmitted to Nissan. I wrote asking what data, who gets its, how it will be used. I asked if it is available to government officials. They replied that a black box has been in Nissans since 2006. Car functions are being monitored, and that, yes, the data would be available to government entities when appropriate. They did not say they would need a court order to reveal the content.I am now asking, how to turn it off, and how to disconnect the black box recorder.

So, Nissan knows everything about my use of the car. The police can prove I was speeding. The wife can prove I was at my mistress's address on a specific date. (Just kidding, Honey. I could not handle two bosses.)

It gets worse. My son in law was discussing a product in his living room, with all appliances off. He then began receiving ads on this product. The likely source of his privacy breach was the microphone of his turned off smart TV, or his cellphone running Android, or his X-Box. It is waiting for instructions to turn on, for example. However, while waiting, it might be transmitting the conversation in the living room to Google.

Wifi holograms of objects behind walls are now possible.