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   Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 22:26:29 JST Richard Stallman

   [1/2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

   Canadian friends riding in a Lyft car found that their conversation had been recorded and sent in the form of text to the phone of one of them. This is supposed to be illegal, but Lyft says it shouldn't have been possible and it doesn't understand what happened. I can't draw any specific moral conclusions about Lyft from these fragments of understanding, but it is clear that microphones in cars are