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New OnStar Service Lets You Track Your Family’s Cars Online
It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?
Well, you would if you had OnStar’s Family Link. In fact, you would know where your wife or husband was too. That’s because it tracks every single car in the family’s garage, …
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OnStar’s Privacy Dust-Up: It’s Over, and Didn’t Apply to OnStar FMV
My latest Technologizer column on TIME.com is about OnStar FMV, the first version of the car safety-and-information service available as an aftermarket add-in for most cars, cleverly built into a rear-view mirror. When I shared the story on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, I heard from some folks who said FMV sounded neat. But a few said …
OnStar Reverses Position, Won’t Track You if You Cancel Service
OnStar’s crying uncle after the media (and presumably customer) hoopla over its plans to track former subscribers. That’s terrific news—I called the plan creepy, because it was.
OnStar just announced that it was changing course, stating it was “reversing its proposed Terms and Conditions policy changes,” and that it would “not keep …
Creepy: OnStar Will Track You Whether You’re Subscribed or Not
You know those melodramatic OnStar commercials? The ones where someone somehow locks their baby (and keys) in the car on a blazing hot summer day, panics and calls the service to remotely unlock the vehicle’s doors? Imagine that, except without the baby, the accidentally locking the keys in the car, or the part where you have a …