Any manufacturer of hardware that is not making a similar shift is doomed.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/deere-invests-billions-in-self-driving-tractors-smart-crop-sprayers-11662904802?mod=djemalertNEWS

Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers

For decades, Deere & Co. has dominated the hardware that powers the American farm industry with tractors, harvesters and other machinery used to plant seeds and reap crops.

Now, Deere aims to extend its dominance to software to make those machines—and agriculture—more efficient and productive.

The company this year is rolling out self-driving tractors hat can plow fields by themselves, and sprayers that distinguish weeds from crops. Deere, which helped make satellite-guided tractors ubiquitous in the U.S. Farm Belt over the past 20 years, is investing billions of dollars to develop smarter machines that the company said will make farming faster and more efficient than it ever could be with just farmers behind the wheel.

“It’s all about doing more with less,” said John May, Deere’s chief executive.

By the end of the decade, Mr. May projects that 10% of Deere’s annual revenue will come from fees for using software.

Just the facts…

https://www.pogowasright.org/fact-sheet-on-the-ftcs-commercial-surveillance-and-data-security-rulemaking/

Fact Sheet on the FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking

From the FTC:

Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Technologies essential to everyday life also enable near constant surveillance of people’s private lives. The volume of data collected exposes people to identity thieves and hackers. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of errors, deception, manipulation, and other abuses. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is asking the public to weigh in on whether new rules are needed to protect people’s privacy and information in the commercial surveillance economy.

Access the full fact sheet [Here: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Commercial%20Surveillance%20and%20Data%20Security%20Rulemaking%20Fact%20Sheet_1.pdf

Vulnerable to ‘tailgating’ like any access key?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/06/sydney-schools-use-of-fingerprint-scanners-in-toilets-an-invasion-of-privacy-expert-says

Sydney school’s use of fingerprint scanners in toilets an invasion of privacy, expert says

A Sydney high school’s decision to install fingerprint scanners at the entrance to toilets to track student movements and prevent vandalism has been criticised as “unreasonable and disproportionate” by a privacy expert.

Moorebank high school moved to install the scanners in term three, with the school’s principal, Vally Grego, telling parents it was a measure intended to reduce vandalism

… “Students should have the right to go to the bathroom without having their biometric information collected, and [their] movements constantly monitored,” she said.

Note the alternatives that allow you to be an authorized stalker.

https://www.makeuseof.com/free-phone-tracker-app-without-permission/

5 Reasons Not to Install a Free Phone Tracker App Without Permission

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