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In reply to the discussion: Wall Street Can Now Disable Your Car When You're Driving on the Freeway [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)But the pressure can start building.
If you are trying to get consumers to "sacrifice"--maybe a few will, but not many. Won't work. That's the reality of consumers who don't care (or don't have the skills) to do all this research and come to an understanding of the dangers. There has to be advocacy that doesn't depend on the average consumer buying into it necessarily. Tho good if they will. Eventually they will appreciate the effort.
Consumer protection is very weak in America. And laws to protect us from invasions of privacy are in need of serious reform. Demand it. We deserve it. Problem is, we are so untrusting of govt now we think we should be doing everything for ourselves. There are groups working on these issues of invasive tracking and data collection--that needs to grow and become a movement.
Just simply advocating giving up smart devices is asking the consumer to abstain from what has become a new way of living to the point of addiction to many. "Just say no"--how well does that work? We need new tools to fight back on this.