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Pluralistic: Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies (12 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Another characteristically brilliant Kashmir Hill story for *The New York Times* reveals another characteristically terrible fact about modern life: your car secretly records fine-grained telemetry about your driving and sells it to data-brokers, who sell it to insurers, who use it as a pretext to gouge you on premiums: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html 1/

The NYC stop on my Bezzle tour has been finalized! I'll be at Word Brooklyn on Mar 24, in conversation with the Academy Award-winning documentarian Laura Poitras!

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"The majority of #censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power." -@Ada_Palmer

Tools for Thinking About Censorship – Ex Urbe