This is not about ads in the cars. People would hate that. It's all about collecting the meta data about you. Do you not understand how valuable that information is? Using YOUR meta data advertisers can have you travel down street businesses you are most likely to go spend money at. You do realize with the self driving car app they know exactly who you are. And with your meta data, your age, sex, race, religion, yearly income, where you live, what you like to do, political affiliation, where you like to shop and if this were Facebook over 600 pieces of profile about you.
Are you familiar with what the census data IBM was tracking for the Nazi's during World War II? If not read the book "IBM and the Holocaust". Spoiler alert IBM's "computers" could produce census reports to the Nazi's so they could identify and target groups of people based on race, religion, profession and what ever else would fit on an 80 column punch card. IBM provided names and addresses as well at the rate of 25,000 people per hour per machine.
Read the book or the short read here
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2Do you have any idea how easy it would be for an advertisers or government to target a specific group of people with meta data. With just 200 "Like" clicks on Facebook they know with a 99% degree of accuracy who you are and have an extensive profile about you.
GDPR is something advertisers hate. In the US we are still struggling with privacy and meta data. Have you seen the size of the "secret" government data center in Utah the US has to collect the meta data?
To my European and especially German friends don't think you are alone with mass genocide. Here in the United States we still haven't come to grips with slavery. And why the Germans are teaching kids about the Holocaust, here in the United States we go out of our way not to teach or even mention the genocide we committed. We've killed over 100 million Native American (Indianans) over the past 500 years and the sad part is we are still doing it. We still have Native Americans living on reservations which is the American version of a concentration camp.
Sorry to go off on this privacy thing, but this is a huge issue for us here in America. Facebooks meta data was used to influence our elections. (Like we haven't done the same in other countries.) But it's also been used to target African-Americans/Blacks in our country.
Do you have any idea how valuable your meta data is? Think privacy doesn't matter? Then give you your bank account and credit card numbers and passwords.