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The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore (fee.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

There's no possible way this ever makes it to regulation. And most of you haven't read the law, so don't understand you're being lied to. Read analysis here:

https://midwest.social/comment/4975539

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the other articles on the site, I count one antivaxx and another that claims the newly elected fascist in Argentina is a "Libertarian".

Thanks for linking to a sane review.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I literally downvoted before reading anything besides the title. An unknown publication making an outlandish claim. Obvious rage bait. It's sad to see so many of these nothing stories gain traction here. It's so fucking obvious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The FEE has been around for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think the analysis is correct in that the implementation will die in committee before ever making it to effect, not to mention the practical considerations of implementing this in the lighting-fast timeframe of 3 years. However, I cannot help but point out this part:

So far, not a kill switch, but some kind of technology to detect if you’re driving like a drunk person and disable the vehicle.

"Disable the vehicle" is literally what people mean when they talk about a "kill switch". At best that's an argument over semantics. The law mandates a thing that deliberately stop your car from functioning. That's a kill switch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not a lie. There's no malicious intent. It's just not even wrong. It so fundamentally lacks understanding of the underlying bureaucracy, technology, product lifecycle, and surrounding politics politics that it amounts to nothing.

And the overall point still stands. We should be skeptical of these kinds of intrusions into our devices from the state. We should resist them as a default posture.