When they went from a simple NEMA 14-50 plug for charging to a
complicated system that "enables" (requires) your car and the charger to
communicate, you unintentionally gave up your privacy when using a
public charger.
The car and the charger can get quite chummy and share all sorts of
information while you are blissfully charging while sipping your latte.
If you want privacy, you should either charge at home or charge
using your own charger plugged into a NEMA 14-50 (or ordinary outlet.)
Perhaps some enterprising person will come up with an "anonymizer"
charging cord that will limit the data from your car to the very minimum
needed to get a charge. (A bit like the "power but not data sharing" USB
cord that your use to connect your phone to public airport phone
charging stations.) Perhaps it might disguise your vehicle as some very
early, unintelligent, very basic EV that just replies with generic;
"More please, I'm fine, and We are done."
Bill D.
On 6/11/2023 6:26 AM, Mr. Sharkey via EV wrote:
>> They want to gather data. It has serious value.
>
> And I don't want to give it to them.
>
> I'm paying them to charge. I don't owe them anything else.
Oh come now, David. The overall mindset of anyone and everyone who
uses a schmott phone or any one or other of social media sites is that
"My privacy is shot anyway so why try to prevent them from knowing
everything about me and everyone I have contact with".
People in general (apparently many of them here as well), are
perfectly willing to give away everything for convenience while paying
for the privilege of providing it.
I actually stopped consuming alcohol last fall after Kroger insisted
that ALL purchases of wine, beer, cough syrup, etc required the
scanning of the purchaser's identification as a condition of sale. A
head of gray hair and face full of wrinkles is no longer proof of age.
Screw 'em. Screw 'em all.
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