• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    What data though? With thousands of cars that can connect to cell networks, wifi networks, bluetooth devices, and gps you get a fleet of war drivers.

    By corrilating times, locations and mac addresses it would be trivial to find and track individuals using their personal devices.

    Yes any government COULD do this but there would be loads of red tape and negotiating with manufactures. Chinese manufactures have no choice, they ship surveillance software when they are told to or they don’t get to sell internationally.

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      Yes any government COULD do this but there would be loads of red tape and negotiating with manufactures. Chinese manufactures have no choice, they ship surveillance software when they are told to or they don’t get to sell internationally.

      Just China?

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        Any other government would have to work with manufactures operating in other countries, it would be a big project to get all the different parties involved on the same page quietly.

        The Chinese government can dictate what Chinese manufactures do, there is no negotiating or wrangling, just you do it or you are replaced by someone who can. Non compliant business don’t get to be international businesses.