who cares about privacy?

[Chris S]

What more could they collect on you that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook don't already know?

We can't even talk about something in our home without the topic showing up in our recommended YouTube video feed.

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[photontorque]

Well. This is interesting. The current privacy policy is still in place:
https://rivian.com/legal/privacy

Though at the top there is a link to a new privacy policy that will go into effect on Nov 9:
https://rivian.com/legal/privacy-updated

The new policy is much longer. Still wading through it. It many ways it is the same, with more detail behind shorter text in the current privacy policy. In general, more detail is good. What is not as good is that they still collect a whole bunch of information, and reserve the right to share it with such a broad range of entities that it's largely unconstrained.

However, It appears that Rivian will set up a way to request that Rivian's processing of one's data be restricted, or even allow someone to object to data collection: "In this case, where applicable, we will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims." This sentence seems porous, but at least it is a step in the direction of consumer control over the own data. Will have to take a run at this at see what happens.

Also, while they say they are not setting up a bug bounty program, they are willing to accept vulnerability reports.

Can't turn the battleship on a dime, and there is still a bit to be desired about this policy. However, I like that Rivian is taking some steps to give options of data control to the customer (assuming some reasonable fraction of requests are granted), as well as acknowledge that their software has vulnerabilities that are better flagged by well-intentioned people than the keyboard Saurons of the world.