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Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:10 pm
by Scubaregs
enuff_zed wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:07 pm
Scubaregs wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:45 pm Even worse mate, she talks in her sleep but thanks for the new bike. :thumbsup:
Was she asleep before you started talking? :wink:
Chloroform generally has that effect. :P

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:45 pm
by Pondrew
I cannot believe I missed this thread. Best fun reading I've had on here for a while TBH. Don't normally read the G29 section, as it's a bit 'high tech' and above my pay grade.

I really don't understand why some people are so worried about the 'digital spying' thing (especially as most newish BMW owners work in the IT sector, which seems a little hypocritical)?

From what I gather, the ONLY reason anybody is 'spying' on us is to try and sell us stuff, one way or another. Google spy on us to make advertising more 'relevant', BMW are spying to 'tailor' cars and make sure we spend lots of cash getting them serviced.

We all have a choice; sell your super-high-tech G29 and buy an E85 where you have to use a match to spark up the headlights. :)

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:15 am
by Pondrew
Mr BMW_User: you do realise that you are being 'monitored' by the advertisers on this forum too? There is an irony there, me thinks!

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:47 am
by enuff_zed
Pondrew wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:15 am Mr BMW_User: you do realise that you are being 'monitored' by the advertisers on this forum too? There is an irony there, me thinks!
Given the level of intellect exhibited by his limited vocabulary and puerile need to resort to swearing to mask his inadequate grasp of the English language, methinks you should replace ‘Mr’ with ‘Master’. :D

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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:48 am
by Scubaregs
enuff_zed wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:47 am
Pondrew wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:15 am Mr BMW_User: you do realise that you are being 'monitored' by the advertisers on this forum too? There is an irony there, me thinks!
Given the level of intellect exhibited by his limited vocabulary and puerile need to resort to swearing to mask his inadequate grasp of the English language, methinks you should replace ‘Mr’ with ‘Master’. :D
Ah so he is not a troll then, more of a baiter?

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:57 am
by bonzo
The problem with the people who continually bore us all with the 'governments are spying on us' moans is that they're the very same people who would complain to high heaven if a lack of government monitoring failed when it would have assisted them in some way.

'Why weren't the town centre cameras working? My son has just been mugged and attacked. It's a disgrace'.

:oops:

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:53 pm
by Nanu
We have to accept in todays modern society we are continually monitored and tracked one way or another.

If you have a mobile phone you can be tracked to within 25 metres of where you actually are. If you use a credit or bank card, you can be tracked. If you walk around the majority of towns and cities in the world, you are being tracked. Even when you drive from A to B you are being tracked.

If you don't like it, go live in a cave and eat grass.

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:42 pm
by Pondrew
Nanu wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:53 pm If you don't like it, go live in a cave and eat grass.
I didn't realise you knew 'The Fens' so well!

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:38 pm
by Scubaregs
OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:41 pm
by enuff_zed
Scubaregs wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:38 pm OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.
Locked in a darkened room memorising kindergarten insults 🤣

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:47 pm
by DMike
Scubaregs wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:38 pm OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.
The text style, use of sentence structures and punctuation were familiar. Perhaps he’s just busy trading oil stocks?

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:53 pm
by sars
It seems to me to be a simple choice, you either let BMW have the ability to monitor your movements, choices and worldly interactions or you buy an older car.

I also think it’s best not to imagine what our Governments are up to regarding monitoring our lives, because I bet it’s worse than what we think we know

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:35 am
by Scubaregs
DMike wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:47 pm
Scubaregs wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:38 pm OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.
The text style, use of sentence structures and punctuation were familiar. Perhaps he’s just busy trading oil stocks?
Agreed as I mentioned earlier in the thread.
However our financial genius was never potty mouthed.

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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:19 am
by Pondrew
Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:35 am Agreed as I mentioned earlier in the thread.
However our financial genius was never potty mouthed.
Yes but if you lost a million overnight on 'pork belly futures' I'm sure it would make you swear too!

I lost £452 on some sharks changing my oil today and I'm f***ing, f***ing furious. The absolute *****!

The bots put the ** in, it was supposed to say fecking, fecking and C U Next Tuesday. However, motherfucker is OK. Go figure? :?

Car sim card, API connection to BMW Company servers and privacy

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:23 am
by DMike
Pondrew wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:19 am
Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:35 am Agreed as I mentioned earlier in the thread.
However our financial genius was never potty mouthed.
Yes but if you lost a million overnight on 'pork belly futures' I'm sure it would make you swear too!

I lost £452 on some sharks changing my oil today and I'm f***ing, f***ing furious. The absolute *****!

The bots put the ** in, it was supposed to say fecking, fecking and C U Next Tuesday. However, motherfucker is OK. Go figure? :?
Being a non-native I praise the richness of nuancess of language I learn browsing this forum. We never had the asterisk-words in school. :D