Even if you are right, and as a prosecutor for the last 21 years I’m pretty sure you’re not, your post assumes that you’d be able to get a United States Attorney to take this wiretapping offense seriously, present to a grand jury and indict- which they absolutely wouldn’t. Hell we can’t even get them to prosecute bank…

Illinois wiretapping law. ... Illinois made it a crime to use an “eavesdropping device” to overhear or record a phone call or conversation without the consent of all parties to the conversation. The law was ruled unconstitutional in 2014 by the Illinois Supreme Court. via People v. Melongo and People v. Clark

Mr. Comstock, I believe you are referring to Illinois Criminal Code section 14, and you’ve done a fine job of explaining it here and defending your analysis, but this matter would be handled in civil court.

I’d also like to add that, in all likelihood, their starting the car automatically turned on said camera--so really they consented because they themselves turned the camera on (a camera that was, again, in plain view and could easily have been turned off/disabled).

They impliedly consented to the recording at the very least. Most likely it was obvious that the camera was on and in plain view of the perpetrators.

The camera wasn’t hidden, so they had no reasonable expectation of privacy—especially in someone else’s car that they didn’t have permission to be using for this purpose.

Nope, a budget is a plan to spend money. I have a grocery budget. While I could spend all my income on groceries, I have set a budgeted amount for my grocery spending. Saying that her car budget in $35K means that she has defined that amount as the most she will spend for that expenditure. She may have the means to…

OK, you can stop now

you’re definitely annoying.

Miata RF in that awesome dark red color. Cheap, fun, good.

Not one roadster on the list? What is wrong with you? She and her husband live in southern California, how is a roadster not the answer? why not buy something like an mx-5 and use the change to give it proper suspension and power? I would live along the PCH and zoom by at 8k rpm 4 times a day. jesus, you people with…

“can afford” doesn’t have to be the top of your car budget tho

what does that have to do with anything?  Applaud the fact that some people set and live within a budget.  You gave a silly take. 

Too easy. The Boing issue isn’t tragic, rather it is the inevitable outcome when a product is a geopolitical object and not the goal in and of itself. The self regulatory, and erosion of regulatory agencies is not a simple “that’s the way the world works” - its a conscious decision.

This is a bit contradictory. A deceptive company should easily fool people.

I’ll try to explain it for you in simple terms:

Man, holy shit are the trolls out in force today.

Here’s our daily “GM is shit” article.

This is false. Silence makes us complicit in the death of the true off road vehicle. We must shake the tree until we receive the fruits of our whining and complaining. GIVE US A SOLID FRONT AXLE IN SOMETHING BESIDES A WRANGLER, DANGIT!! WE WANT GROUND CLEARANCE! AND ARTICULATION!! AND AFTERMARKET OPTIONS!!