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Stop Your Car From Collecting and Sharing Your Driving Data
For years, some car insurers have offered their customers the option of getting a discount on their premiums for agreeing to share their driving data. To collect it, insurance companies would typically have you install a plug-in device on your car dashboard or download a smartphone app that tracked your location and speed. By the 2020s, these telematics programs were…
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Our favorite iPhone and Android apps for streaming and collecting music
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and the real economics of YouTuber…
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FTC orders GM to stop collecting and selling driver’s data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking action against General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary, OnStar, for unlawful collection and selling drivers’ precise geolocation and driving behavior data from millions of vehicles. The U.S. government organization proposes a settlement in which the automotive giant will be barred from sharing drivers’ sensitive data for five years. The car maker also has…
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The best note-taking apps for collecting your thoughts and data
These days, we are all dealing with huge amounts of information, from meeting notes to social media, to photos and videos, to whatever else we’ve collected — and we are all trying to find some way to store it, organize it, and find it when we need it. If you want to get really basic, you can use a spreadsheet…
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