[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1 right to repair

[Ishi Crew]

I sort of liked the COVID-19 lockdown when there were almost no cars on the
street.  None. there was an uptick in street violence. it could be
dangerous to go outside on the deserted streets. (i got affected by this
violence.i dont have a car) (my area once had a group called 'car-free DC').

i'm more of an ecologist---i like to maintain that.  (i'm into field
ecology, cleanups of my local area either alone or with a group, and also
theory---thats pure mathematics and physics which i oftebn read outside if
its not raining or snowing.)

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:07 AM Jessica Mink <jmink at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -Jessica Mink
> On 10/19/2020 01:05 PM, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
> 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 some truly gross ads
> <https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4ayw/auto-industry-tv-ads-claim-right-to-repair-benefits-sexual-predators> that
> are nothing more than cheap scare tactics.
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out/
>
> Hope this helps alleviate some confusion.
>
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