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

[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'.

 

[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.

 

[Pondrew]

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

I didn't realise you knew 'The Fens' so well!

 

[Scubaregs]

OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.

 

[enuff_zed]

OP is quiet again, perhaps "they" have tracked and incarcerated him.

Locked in a darkened room memorising kindergarten insults

 

[DMike]

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?

 

[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

 

[Scubaregs]

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.

 

[Pondrew]

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 fucking, fucking furious. The absolute cunts!

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

 

[DMike]

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.

 

[Roadster_Surrey]

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.

Yes and it's really unfortunate that world became like this. All this great technology to make our life easier is collecting information all the time. ANPR camera storing your travels almost everywhere. So, I prefer not to add to that and minimise exposure (no social media, alexa and other listening devices). It's bad enough, Marriott, BA, my accountant and bunch of other companies lost my personal data.

Good indication what data BMW gathers is looking into BMW app.

 

[Pondrew]

So, I prefer not to add to that and minimise exposure (no social media,

This IS social media!

 

[Roadster_Surrey]

I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.

 

[Scubaregs]

I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.

Wiki disagrees.

"An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1]

Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies.

Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, product"

 

[Pondrew]

photo sharing,

That reminds me; still haven't received the photos of Lynne in the buff as promised! :lol:

 

[Scubaregs]

photo sharing,

That reminds me; still haven't received the photos of Lynne in the buff as promised! :lol:

Me neither mate. Probably just as well though as LYNN would go mad(er).

 

[Roadster_Surrey]

I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.

Wiki disagrees.

"An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1]

Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies.

Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, product"

I would never consider checking "official" definition, especially, since forums were already out there when term "social media" was coined or came to existence. So, in my mind, it's like usenet, just discussion board.

 

[Scubaregs]

So facts don't matter?

Whether you perceive it as social media or not does not change the fact that it is.

 

[enuff_zed]

So facts don't matter?

Whether you perceive it as social media or not does not change the fact that it is.

I think you'll find it contains an element of anti-social media too

 

[Roadster_Surrey]

It's the first time, I heard that forum is social media. Forums, which existed long time before social media term came to life or someone thought about Facebook, Instagram and whatever else. So, I will keep to my opinion.