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The cars have a factory installed SIM-card that allows remote control AND remote access to the integrated phone system (without giving any notion that somebody is listening in on you in your car).

everybody also “knows” that the Facebook app listens to you

https://www.estiponagroup.com/blog/shhhhhh-facebook-actually-listening-surveillance-marketing-explained

As for China - THIS the bog-standard procedure for any tech-related company when an employee has to travel to China. Give them a burner phone and laptop, zero company data on them, zero access to critical company data, after they return, just throw the gear away.

I honestly don’t now what other proof would you need, when we know them spying on regular people has been happening for decades.

The evidence is in the fact that it’s a Chinese company. They are required by law to provide the government with all the data they collect (and we know they collect data).

Lemmy is weird. As long as you’re on the dogpile against the current “big bad” of the week, you’re good to go. Fuck Tesla? Then let’s buy Chinese products.

It’s insane, but it’s where we are.

It’s authoritarian spyware, period. There are more options than these two - ww don’t have to choose the lesser evil.

Let’s not forget that they are actively committing genocide against the Uighur. I don’t think they are the “lesser evil”.

Any time, nutsack.

OK, I’m not really mad at this. I already used Copilot to design a table for me in Excel and it worked really well. It did everything for me, and I just had to copy-paste the formulas into their appropriate spots. If it’s built-in, possibly will work better.

Not everybody needs to be an Excel expert, after all. Having that functionality might be actually beneficial.