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<p>I live in Massachusetts and am about to vote YES on question 1.
As a developer who writes only open source software, I strongly
believe that the more eyes on the code, the safer it is likely to
be. I think the dealers are playing a longer game than we see up
front. With the electrification of the automobile fleet as they
saw with the ill-fated EV-1, there will be less need for repairs
as the number of mechanical parts in a vehicle is drastically
reduced. Dealers make a lot of money from repairs, and want to
keep as much of that business that they possibly can, so they want
to exclusively own the data coming from each vehicle so that they
have the exclusive right to make money from maintaining those
cars, and most of what will be moving in the cars' systems will be
bits and electrons.</p>
<p>-Jessica Mink<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/2020 01:05 PM, Aaron Gordon
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Hi everyone, I’m a reporter who has covered the auto industry and
transportation in general. The MA ballot measure is a right to
repair issue masquerading as a data privacy issue (although I’d
argue the two are increasingly overlapping, especially in the auto
industry). The auto industry’s lobbyists have put out <a
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4ayw/auto-industry-tv-ads-claim-right-to-repair-benefits-sexual-predators"
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are nothing more than cheap scare tactics.
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<div class="">The privacy argument is fundamentally based on the
idea that the existing law, which requires hard-wiring into the
car to read the data, is safe but if that same information is
transmitted wirelessly it is vulnerable to hackers. Considering
the fact most of us conduct our digital existence via wireless
devices in a largely safe manner, this is an absurd argument on
its face.
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<div class="">Furthermore, the auto industry is in no position
to take the high ground on data privacy considering the
industry’s standing practice of hoovering up data from new
vehicles and selling it onto third parties without customer
awareness (or, I would argue, consent, but that’s another
story).The Washington Post did a great investigation into
this last year: <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out/"
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<div class="">Hope this helps alleviate some confusion.</div>
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