As someone who loves the bells and whistles and who recently bought a new vehicle last year a lot of the safety features are really nice to have but of all the tech features I thought I wanted I don't really use. If I can conveniently stream audio from my phone or have a larger screen than my phone for navigation that's placed somewhere I can glance at I would be happy. At least that's what I'd tell my past self.
That said I wouldn't be too paranoid about the data the car is collecting because your cell phone and everyones phone around you is collecting the same information (edit: not that you shouldn't be concerned about that either). It's just that these manufacturers are realizing theres money to be made here, it's probably why GM wants to stop including Apple Car play or Android Auto so there's less fingers in the cookie jar.
Could you imagine living somewhere that you could commute locally and just work remotely and not need such a finacial burden in your life? What a fantasy 😔
A lot of it has to do with things like Android Auto or Apple car play where the software needs access to your text message to read it to you and may need to send it to a more powerful cloud base system to translate your voice to text or the response from text into voice. These are legitimate reasons for using that data despite the taboo nature of how we view privacy and there are workarounds and technological breakthroughs that make it so those things can be done locally without sending it for processing but there's pros and cons for technical reasons not to. That said does a system need to read every text message on your phone just to read out a text you've only just received absolutely not and this is where things get into the grey area.
The problem is that if you want that car you have to agree to these data policies that are very blatantly just trying to to take all of the data they can to monetize either directly from selling or trading or indirectly like improving services. What we need are strong laws in place to protect privacy but that's an uphill battle when politicians are beholden to capitalism.
So to go back and actually answer your original question, yes, encryption is our only means or privacy assuming in this case signal encrypts data at rest.
Someone posted some AI generated audio of Trump and Biden playing dungeons and dragons together with other people that was hilarious. So yeah he may not be funny but his likeness sure can be.
Some people base their decisions on analytical thoughts and others based on emotion. Trump is fantastic at making speeches that make people feel good and scratch some need they're desperate for even if it makes no sense when you read it back.
Why you gotta call out the psyops groups out there, you know how hard they're already working. There's no time for coming up with new campaigns when the old ones work so well.
Thats actually a misunderstanding the lasers aren't any brighter but the stuff they put in the chemtrails that makes the frogs gay adds a bright glow around the laser.
It's just "another" but some regions of the United States either intentionally mispronunce the word, because of an accent, or culturally learned that way from others.
I certainly was, it's like you [redacted] didn't want us to [redacted] but instead [redacted] you were saying about [redacted]. Get it?