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Ford Files Patent to Spy on Drivers: ‘Ford wants to listen to your in-car conversations’

Damion Smy of Drive.com: Ford has filed a patent to eavesdrop on vehicle occupants and play adverts over its infotainment system based on those conversations. Only months after the US launched an investigation into whether Chinese-made cars were being used to spy on its citizens, Michigan-based Ford filed the patent designed to collect voice and data from the vehicle to create targeted advertising within the car.

According to US outlet Motor Trend, the system could also use information such as the destinations in the vehicle’s navigation system to create advertising for, say, an outlet at the shopping centre you’re travelling to – or have frequented.

The US car giant has patented tech enabling it to listen in on your conversations – and play you adverts based on what you and your passengers have said.

Martin Armstrong: In September 2024, Ford filed a new patent to eavesdrop on riders. They plan to share this information with third-parties to personalize the advertisements riders hear. Ford will also take the driver’s destination into consideration to determine location-specific advertisements and suggestions.

“Cars have microphones and people have all kinds of sensitive conversations in them. Cars have cameras that face inward and outward,” a researcher with Mozilla Foundation told the Los Angeles Times. In fact, 19 automakers in 2023 admitted that they have the ability to sell your personal data without notice. Law enforcement may subpoena these records as well.

Ford claims that the patent was submitted, but they do not necessarily plan to use the technology. “Submitting patent applications is a normal part of any strong business as the process protects new ideas and helps us build a robust portfolio of intellectual property. The ideas described within a patent application should not be viewed as an indication of our business or product plans.

Climate lockdowns in Oxfordshire UK: Social Credit System for travel – Council seeks to ‘cut car use…by placing strict rules on car journeys’ to meet Net-Zero goals

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/oxford-2024-climate-lockdowns-start-you-will-be-tracked-and-trapped-in-your-suburb-and-happy-about-it/ By Jo Nova The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they care about you want you to drive less. A cartoon from the WEF just for you good girls and boys: In the WEF’s own words — this rearrangement of cities is absolutely about climate change: As climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and […]

Biden’s Energy Sec Granholm insists high gas prices are ‘a very compelling case’ to buy an electric car

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10917667/Biden-Energy-insists-high-gas-prices-compelling-case-buy-electric-vehicle.html Official is worth $8million and recently exercised $1.6m stock option in electric car company Granholm, in a clip surfaced Tuesday, made the case for going electric amid sky high gas prices ‘If you filled up your EV [electric vehicle] and you filled up your gas tank with gasoline, you would save $60 per fill-up,’ […]

Watch: Morano on KUSI TV: Talks climate change, electric cars & who funds Climate Depot

Marc Morano Appears on KUSI’s ‘Good Morning San Diego’ To Discuss Gas Prices & Electric Cars Broadcast March 17, 2022

Extinction Rebellion blocks traffic in New York City to make demands of President Biden (commuters are not happy)

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/10/25/extinction-rebellion-blocks-traffic-in-new-york-city-and-commuters-are-not-happy-n424675 JOHN SEXTON Oct 25, 2021 1:00 PM ET Share Tweet We’ve seen lots of this type of “protest” in the UK lately but this morning Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement shut down traffic in parts of New York City including FDR Drive. Here’s their announcement to commuters:null Dear commuters: we are interrupting traffic this morning not to annoy […]

Biden should help clean up the developing world’s exotic mining tragedy – ‘Environmental degradation & humanity atrocities’ to support wind, solar, and EV batteries

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/10/biden-should-help-clean-up-the-developing-worlds-exotic-mining-tragedy/ The enormous amounts of money being allocated for solar and wind — and the never-ending extensions of the tax credits for them — shows that energy policies in Washington and California continues to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities in the foreign countries that are supplying the exotic minerals and metals to support […]

Rush Limbaugh: Prince Charles Issues Dire Climate Warning (Again)

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/07/17/prince-charles-issues-dire-climate-warning-again/ Folks, this bunch of leftists has literally destroyed the mental health of … I’m afraid to guess how many millions of young people have been driven to serious mental illness because of this bogus, fallacious, absurd, ridiculous — It’s not helped when Prince Charles comes out and says we’ve only got 18 months or […]

Climate Guilt: ‘Flight shame’ has Swedes rethinking air travel

Stockholm (AFP) – Saddled with long dark winters at home, Swedes have for decades been frequent flyers seeking out sunnier climes, but a growing number are changing their ways because of air travel’s impact on the climate. “Flygskam”, or flight shame, has become a buzz word referring to feeling guilt over the environmental effects of […]

Greens grasp for silver lining in Trump’s infrastructure pitch – ‘Trump didn’t offer an olive branch to environmentalists on climate change’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/greens-grasp-for-silver-lining-in-trumps-infrastructure-pitch by John Siciliano | February 05, 2019 10:48 PM President Trump didn’t offer an olive branch to environmentalists on climate change in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but major groups say his call for infrastructure legislation could be an opening for cooperation. The Natural Resource Defense Council, a major national environmental group, […]

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