bigalpha Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Oh boy! http://rt.com/usa/ford-vp-auto-surveillance-382/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus-A-CMax Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) *sigh*...welcome to the Brave New World... Edited January 10, 2014 by Jus-A-CMax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptjones Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 This is scary, 1984, 30 years after when it was suppose to happen. LOL :judge: :angry2: Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaPieR Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Some of the comments to the article are funny. Every modern car is capable of this and this has been going on for quite a while from probably every manufacturer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 It doesn't appear to be real time. Do they download when in for service? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-MaxSea Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) Not half as scary as 'smart' phones, Facebook, Twitter, Google, ............................................................ and the dozens (hundreds/thousands ?) of tracking companies/systems/databases...................... out there tracking our every keystroke! :cry: :nonono: :rant2: :rant: :swear: :gaah: :runaway: :runaway: :runaway: :gaah: (and this rant probably cost me some discounts at Groupon or elsewhere - hmm, maybe it assured me a dozen more 'discounts'?) Edited January 10, 2014 by C-MaxSea ptjones, Edsel, Jus-A-CMax and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus-A-CMax Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 End of the day...car, smartphone, even video footage of you licking that chocolate ice cream in the cold, at the corner of the street....the NSA has it ALL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaDadMiami Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 "The GAO says it would be a “recommended practice” for auto makers to adopt a policy that lets drivers be sure their personal driving data is destroyed upon request." Sign me up for that! wab 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridbear Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Ford later retracted the commentshttp://www.businessi...vers-gps-2014-1 http://www.thecarcon...hat-youre-doing http://www.foxbusine... - News - Text) I wonder if this exec will still have a job come Monday after this blunder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armoredsaint Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 (edited) ah sh*t - now they know how many times i went to the titty bar ;) Edited January 12, 2014 by Jus-A-CMax mod edit to tone down cuss word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisl Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Every cellphone is trackable, and to a large extent is tracked. Phones switch from tower to tower all the time, and the phone company can get your location by the relative signal strength at various towers, even if it didn't have a GPS. Virtually all phones now also have a GPS receiver in them (whether they give you the data or not) because it's extremely cheap and provides a good clock reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtb9153 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) ah sh*t - now they know how many times i went to the titty bar ;) Edited January 13, 2014 by mtb9153 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertlane Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 The problem will beging to occur when some lawyer or police gestapo unit subpoenas Ford for that information ptjones and Jus-A-CMax 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) I had a good laugh over this. Imagine someone looking at my GPS data when my GPS has been showing me driving 65 mph through wheat fields next to the Interstate - until the GPS module was updated and fixed last summer. Edited January 13, 2014 by joe different drummer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus-A-CMax Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 I had a good laugh over this. Imagine someone looking at my GPS data when my GPS has been showing me driving 65 mph through wheat fields next to the Interstate - until the GPS module was updated and fixed last summer. Wait....you didn't get the Ford memo that your CMax is a submarine and a hovercraft as well? Dude, you have to try these undocumented features... :lol2: mtb9153 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbov Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 This would explain why my car thought it was taking back roads when I was on the expressway this morning... It was a little spooky as I have 2 routes to work, highway and surface. I was driving on one, but the car was on the other. Turns out GPS was OFF - GPS with a red X - so the car really was lost. I removed and reinserted the SD card and the resulting reset brought GPS back up. Have others seen the GPS turn off? I never noticed it before! Have fun,Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Osama Bin Laden may be dead but he achieved exactly what he wanted. North Americans are now without civil liberties that were in place before 911. It is okay to put surveillance on every citizen under the guise of protecting us. Bull feathers! ptjones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertiv Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 This would explain why my car thought it was taking back roads when I was on the expressway this morning... It was a little spooky as I have 2 routes to work, highway and surface. I was driving on one, but the car was on the other. Turns out GPS was OFF - GPS with a red X - so the car really was lost. I removed and reinserted the SD card and the resulting reset brought GPS back up. Have others seen the GPS turn off? I never noticed it before! Have fun,Frank I'm curious where you saw the icon/symbol for the GPS with the red X. Not seen this before. Since you re-set the SD card, do you think that had lost it's connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbov Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 I can't speak to more than what I did. Removing/replacing the SD card caused the nav to reset and the GPS to turn on (if I've interpreted the icon properly). It was on the left of the nav screen, forming a fourth quadrant with the zoom and pointer config buttons.Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaDadMiami Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Did you move your C-MAX during the time that you took out and replaced the card? Maybe you moved from a dead coverage zone to a better area, and it really didn't have to do with the card? :headscratch: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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