The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Pandora’s box is being opened, and this might just be the beginning.

The Department of Justice has ordered Apple and Google to hand over an OBDII app’s user data in a new emissions probe. The culprit? EZ Lynk, which many of you will remember and possibly just twitched upon seeing the name again.

Five years after the DOJ sued EZ Lynk while claiming the company refused to cooperate with an Environmental Protection Agency investigation, the Feds have now subpoenaed Apple and Google for user data for at least 100,000 people that downloaded the EZ Lynk Auto Agent app. The heart of all this is the DOJ accusing EZ Lynk of purposely assisting customers in modifying their vehicles to violate the Clean Air Act. Now user privacy is on the line.

Now it seems lawyers want to interview individuals about how they used EZ Lynk’s products after looking at and linking their user app data. Naturally, consumer rights advocates are loudly wondering why the DOJ would need consumers’ identities, addresses, and even purchase histories. Who’s on trial here and exactly who are the Feds after now?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-feds-are-coming-for-diesel-truck-owners-they-re-starting-with-your-phone/ar-AA23F1ZD

[Walleye]

1. As I said before, we were all being treated like criminals

With all this cheating and fraud and dishonest Americans. Don’t know how we survived all this time.

[niyad]

2. Am I misunderstanding? The orange scum's department of injustice

is going after polluters? My guess is that most of those "rolling coal" assholes are magats, pedolph's base. Is that an ooops???

[dweller]

3. Just opening the door

for them to claim the government has been (checks notes) weaponized against them … cha-Ching

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[niyad]

4. Even though it is their orange god's collection of goons. ooops, government!.

Thank you for explaining. My brain is a little slow this morning.

[Ferryboat]

5. When the Bill of rigths was written, the founding fathers could never forsee what we face currently.

With rights come responsibility.
Those rolling coal brought this upon themselves. If you purchase a device to circumvent the law what do you expect.
There is NEVER a cop around when need em otherwise these assholes will never be caught.
That said, the ease of the government tracking is enabled by our use of technology. Many others will get caught up in government overreach. This is only the beginning of Big Brother.

[gay texan]

6. This is why i drive non smart stuff n/t