It’s not JUST an app on your phone though, what OP was talking about is an app in your phone AND a black box. Both of them. What I’m saying is that I want just the box, with no app and no other connectivity.
The point of a single purpose device like a driving GPS black box is that it does what it does, and has no capability to do more.
If I have a black box in the car, I know that my insurance company is getting my GPS location, speed, acceleration, where I go, and when and how. And that’s fine, because that’s the data I explicitly consented for them to have when I signed up.
But what I also get is certainty they have no aceess to anything else. With no app on my phone I don’t need to be concerned with what they are slurping up on the sly above and beyond what I consented to - which with apps on a smartphone is quite a lot of data, even if you manage your permissions carefully.
For argument, lets go ahead and assume the black box has “other sensors”(e.g. microphone) and is trying to do something nefarious on the sly like record you talking all the time without consent. That would be easy to prove by tearing down and analysing the device, and much more likely to land them in legal hot water for not disclosing it, given it’s their device which they built for a purpose and in which they included this undisclosed functionality.
It’s not JUST an app on your phone though, what OP was talking about is an app in your phone AND a black box. Both of them. What I’m saying is that I want just the box, with no app and no other connectivity.
The point of a single purpose device like a driving GPS black box is that it does what it does, and has no capability to do more.
If I have a black box in the car, I know that my insurance company is getting my GPS location, speed, acceleration, where I go, and when and how. And that’s fine, because that’s the data I explicitly consented for them to have when I signed up.
But what I also get is certainty they have no aceess to anything else. With no app on my phone I don’t need to be concerned with what they are slurping up on the sly above and beyond what I consented to - which with apps on a smartphone is quite a lot of data, even if you manage your permissions carefully.
For argument, lets go ahead and assume the black box has “other sensors”(e.g. microphone) and is trying to do something nefarious on the sly like record you talking all the time without consent. That would be easy to prove by tearing down and analysing the device, and much more likely to land them in legal hot water for not disclosing it, given it’s their device which they built for a purpose and in which they included this undisclosed functionality.