Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The Nissan LEAF is now one of the classics of the electric vehicle market. But it’s not done and collecting dust in the history books. Nissan is now launching the 3rd-generation LEAF, and it just keeps getting better. What is ... [continued]
They come right out and say they can collect and share your sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic information and other sensitive personal information for targeted marketing purposes. We absolutely aren’t making that up. It says so in their Nissan USA privacy notice. And that’s not all! They also say they can share and even sell “Inferences drawn from any Personal Data collected to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to others for targeted marketing purposes. Yes, Nissan says they can infer things like how smart you are, if you have a predisposition to drink, if you are acting depressed, and if you are any good at chess (we’re guessing that’s what they can infer…it could be even worse than that), and then they say they can make as much money off that very personal information as they can.
Remember https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/nissan/
They come right out and say they can collect and share your sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic information and other sensitive personal information for targeted marketing purposes. We absolutely aren’t making that up. It says so in their Nissan USA privacy notice. And that’s not all! They also say they can share and even sell “Inferences drawn from any Personal Data collected to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to others for targeted marketing purposes. Yes, Nissan says they can infer things like how smart you are, if you have a predisposition to drink, if you are acting depressed, and if you are any good at chess (we’re guessing that’s what they can infer…it could be even worse than that), and then they say they can make as much money off that very personal information as they can.
There’s got to be a way to hack it to not do that.