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About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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Deer Tractors - Deer's Right to Repair Shenanigans

Deer bundled data with an ap that came with seed from mon santo. The farmers generated the data by ploughing their fields but deer took the position that the farmers weren't owners of that data. Deer is one of many companies that practise vin locking, a practice that comes from the automotive industry. As with deer, big car also wanted to be able to gather data on drivers and sell it to third parties. Your car gathers a shocking amount of data about you, which you don't get to see, and the manufacturer sells that to third parties who use it in ways that are counter to your interests.

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