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Record label launches funding page to help give 74 year old techno lover a trip to IbizaRecord label Hedkandi has launched a funding page to help give a 74-year-old techno lover and ex-DJ a trip to Ibiza.

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The English techno label has set up a GoFundMe page to cover the cost of Robert Johnson’s trip to the Spanish island.
The 74-year-old, who is from the Wirral, England, was first employed as a DJ at Liverpool’s Cabin Club, before being introduced to rave music at aged 40.
He then made his first trip to Ibiza in 2007 when he was 58, and loved it so much he would return every year for 11 years, only stopping in recent years due to financial reasons.
“For us, he’s proof you’re never too old to have fun so why can’t we help him to do something he enjoys doing,” Hedkandi founder Mark Doyle told The Echo. “We’re just going to give him a great time.”
“I’m so grateful to all these lovely people, I know lots of them,” explained Johnson. “When they announced they were going to do this night in Hedkandi, which I’ve been to lots over the years when I was working and could afford to go, I thought, ‘I have to go.’ And then Mark sends me an email and says ‘what are you doing in August’ and he said ‘I’m going to take you there’. I was so happy.”
“I learned that Robert went to Ibiza regularly and had a club schedule that would terrify a 21-year-old,” wrote Doyle on the funding page. “Quite simply Robert is a legend and most importantly an example to all of us. And beyond all of that, he’s part of our family.”
You can visit Hedkandi’s pledge over at GoFundMe.
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Berlin announces €947 million culture fund to support new clubs and cultural spacesBerlin’s Senator for Culture has announced a €947 million culture fund for 2024 in a bid to rejuvenate the city’s arts and nightlife scene, Euronews reports.

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The fund, which sees a €13 million increase from this year, will go toward adding 500 cultural spaces including night clubs, venues, museums, and theatres to Berlin’s current 2,000-strong roster, with the goal of doubling the amount of state-owned cultural space by 2030.
Projects that will benefit include the renovation of the Komische Oper, one of Berlin’s biggest opera companies, as well as funds for museums, exhibitions, memorial sites, drama schools and theatres.
According to Euronews, the move is part of an ongoing commitment by the State Minister for Culture and Social Cohesion, Joe Chialo, who has pledged to raise the budget to €1 billion for 2025.
“The crisis that we are fighting now with lots and lots of money will last for a while,” Chialo told Flux FM last month, referencing the threat of inflation and the increasing cost-of-living across Europe. “The club operators can definitely count on my support.”
The announcement has also sparked comparisons between the UK and Germany’s culture fund, with researcher Ruth Hogarth noting that the Berlin budget was over double that for the entirety of England in 2024.

The city of Berlin’s culture budget (population 7m) for 2024 has been set at €947m. The whole of England’s culture budget (population 57m) for 2024 is £458.5m. I know there’s lottery and local authority funding on top, but it doesn’t add up to anything like the per capita spend. https://t.co/YwshmIeKG8
— Ruth Hogarth (@ruthhogarth) July 13, 2023

Earlier this year, the Berlin senate implemented the ‘Jungendkulkarte’, a new initiative giving 18 to 23-year-old Berliners €50 to cover their entrance fees for participating nightclubs, as well as a range of other cultural activities.
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Sequential Trigon-6 is Dave Smith’s final love letter to American synth iconsIt was with a heavy heart that the music world bade farewell to Dave Smith in 2022, founder of Sequential Circuits and synth designer extraordinaire. Smith’s swan song, at that time, was considered to be the mammoth Oberheim OB-X8, a collaborative design with long-term friend and fellow pantheon member, Tom Oberheim, which was announced shortly before Smith’s passing, and released not long after. Little did we know, however, that Dave Smith had one last gift: the Trigon-6, a six-voice polyphonic beast that was “a passion project for Dave Smith,” in the words of Sequential product designer Carson Day.

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Three is a magic number when it comes to the Trigon-6, which you may have already guessed from both its name and the triangle in its logo.
Sequential’s six-voice polyphonic subtractive synth has three analogue oscillators and completes a trinity of instruments that pay tribute to some of the most iconic designs in synthesis. It also happens to have a filter that first made an appearance on the Sequential Pro 3, but we’ll accept that’s a tenuous link. That filter, however, is key to understanding the Trigon-6’s place in the Sequential ecosystem, and in that trinity in particular.

The preceding two synths are, of course, the Prophet-6 and the OB-6. The supremely popular Prophet-6 is a tribute to the iconic Prophet-5 (which has since seen a reissue), taking cues from the Prophet-5’s oscillators and four-pole filter but adding a step sequencer, onboard effects and more. The OB-6 – a collaboration with Tom Oberheim that predates the OB-X8 – meanwhile, enlisted a classic Oberheim SEM state-variable filter and even endeavoured to recreate the sound of the original Oberheim phase shifter and ring modulator effects.
Sequential: check. Oberheim: check. Who could be the last giant of American synthesis to commemorate with a six-voice poly? You guessed it: Moog.
The Trigon-6 is Sequential’s love letter to Moog. It features a Moog-style ladder filter and a formidable trio of beefy oscillators, giving it more than a little in common with the layout and architecture of the Minimoog and the polyphonic Memorymoog, released just over a decade apart.
Perhaps it’s in our imagination, but something about the Trigon-6’s lighter wood finish feels highly Memorymoog-ish; it certainly eschews the darker finishes of previous Sequential instruments.
Sequential Trigon-6 oscillators. Image: Sequential
Just like the Prophet-6 and OB-6, the Trigon-6 features a four-octave, semi-weighted keyboard and measures around 32 inches in length. Another design aspect of the Prophet-6 and OB-6 channelled by the Trigon-6 is an almost purely single-layer, WYSIWYG panel, with no screen menu to speak of and certainly no menu diving. The Trigon-6 literally presents its functions on a plate – a refreshing thing to behold – with a humble, retro-looking (and rather bright) three-figure seven-segment display employed to show preset numbers, indicate global settings, and not much else.
Dual envelopes, a decent selection of digital effects (including a well-tuned bucket brigade-style delay and Oberheim-style phaser), a Prophet-6-esque Polymod section and a simple arpeggiator and sequencer are all on offer. Aftertouch is available, too, which is given its own panel section, but leaves a little to be desired physically – there’s almost no travel distance on the key before reaching full modulation value.
Overall, the build quality here is excellent, with bright LEDs, a solid feel and firm knobs; these even take some effort to turn, in some cases. The Trigon-6’s layout is truly classic and incredibly clear, though fair to say some visual indication of LFO rates would have been appreciated. It may carry a premium price tag, but in a vacuum would make an excellent synth for newcomers with a well-illustrated signal flow and quick and easy parameter edits.
Sequential Trigon-6 filters. Image: Sequential
The Moogfluence is writ large on the Trigon-6. Just like the Minimoog and Memorymoog, its three oscillators are arranged one above the other, with each getting its own Minimoog-like stepped octave knob (something not offered by the Prophet-6 or OB-6), tuning knobs for oscillators 2 and 3, an oscillator sync button, and a noise generator. Also similar to the aforementioned Moogs, oscillator 3 can dive to sub-audio frequencies to become an LFO, and has a handy button to toggle keyboard control on and off.
Let’s be clear; there are no complaints about this whatsoever. A triple-oscillator, Sequential take on Moog architecture is no doubt what many have been dreaming of, and the Trigon-6 delivers magnificently.
The Trigon-6 is far from a clone, however. For one thing, its filter is switchable between two- and four-pole modes, which is a lovely touch and offers a decent amount of control over its character.
Sequential Trigon-6 top. Image: Sequential
Beyond combining “all of the best qualities of Sequential’s Prophet-6 and OB-6 synths” (in Carson Day’s words), the Trigon-6 excels in the realm of distortion, overdrive and feedback. A bipolar feedback/drive knob can dial in anything from subtle crunch to all-out, sonic mangling, toeing a line perfectly between the Minimoog trick of feeding its output back into its audio input and designs previously seen in synths like the Dave Smith Instruments’ Mopho. There’s also a distortion knob, as seen on the Prophet-6, which augments this with further harmonic overtones.
Thankfully, you can crank the levels of all three oscillators into the ladder filter, really squeezing them through the circuitry and pushing them up into its headroom. Dial in some component drift with the Vintage knob – something of a Sequential favourite that also found its way onto the OB-X8 – and the Trigon-6 does a great job of imitating all the warmth and character of an old-school instrument.
The Vintage knob is a worthy inclusion to the Trigon-6, but in many ways, this is a synth that manages to feel vintage anyway. It has a distinct character and real bite, perhaps more so than we’re used to on a Sequential instrument.
The Trigon-6 stands tall next to its celebrated six-voice peers; a fitting conclusion to the monumental legacy of one of the synth world’s most revered minds. Thank you, Dave.
Key features

6-voice polysynth
3 discrete voltage-controlled oscillators
Switchable 2/4-pole Moog-style ladder filter per voice
Polyphonic step sequencer
Semi-weighted, 4-octave keyboard with velocity and aftertouch
Vintage knob
Onboard effects

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How a file named ‘Deadmau5 Meets Two Shell’ became Ineffekt’s new hit, The LightWith the power and portability of plugins, Ineffekt’s studio is wherever he opens his MacBook. And what a studio it is – crammed full of digital synths, one-knob wonders and modulation effects that have played a huge part in shaping the Dutch producer’s off-kilter, pop-tinged electronica.

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This sound can be found on the producer’s debut album, High Hopes, due out this month. Ineffekt used mostly plugins to create this, so he happily tells us about the album’s staple synths, which saturation plugins added warmth, and the FabFilter effect that helps to avoid his songs “sounding generic”.
High Hopes by Ineffekt
Ineffekt – hello! What’s the latest?
Heya! I’m kinda in a nerve-wracking summer, to be honest. It’s my first year playing big shows, figuring out how to handle them, but having a lot of fun, too. Additionally, I’m working on a bunch of music. I just did a remix for Avalon Emerson’s record and started writing new demos. High Hopes wasn’t finished that long ago actually, I finished mixing it last April. So, it still feels fresh and I’m figuring out what’s next musically.
What feelings inspired the track High Hopes?
In the past year, I’ve found there’s a difficult dynamic between having high hopes and expectations. In life in general, but also in music, you want to keep having high hopes and stay positive, but it’s hard to avoid turning them into expectations and ultimately disappointing yourself.
How does it tie into the music? Tracks like The Light, Silver Lining and What I Mean feel neither moody nor extremely happy to me. It’s this in-between mood I was sometimes in last winter.
What’s your latest plugin purchase?
I bought the Waves NLS Buss saturator recently, which I got from watching Jaycen Joshua (mix engineer Rosaliá). I really really really (really!) love the sound of his mixes. They’re heavy, yet soothing on the ears. They have clarity yet stay warm.
Waves NLS Buss saturator. Image: Waves Audio
He has this trick to give your drum bus an ‘analogue-sounding’ boost by putting eight separate instances on the bus. It gives this warm wide effect that sounds amazing.
What plugin would High Hopes be incomplete without?
Definitely Native Instruments’ Kontakt extension, Scarbo. It has extremely rich sounds that make up a chunk of the synths on the EP. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many options to adjust the presets, but enough to make them fit in. A couple of pads in The Light and Hold on Me are Scarbo for example, but also all those gritty sub-basses that I use on every song. It’s just this very particular sweet spot in between sounding warm and futuristic.
Scarbo. Image: Teleton Audio
There are so many exciting sounds throughout this EP. Can you tell us the melodies we’re hearing in The Light?
It’s funny, The Light was one of the first demos I wrote for the record and still feels like it was one of the first moments I noticed a new sound was forming. In my previous work, I always wrote bright melodies and chords – stuff would sound cute and wholesome. After a while, the bright melodies didn’t hit that much anymore and I was starting to gravitate towards something more nuanced.
High Hopes by IneffektWhen listening to Caroline Polachek, I often found that this in-between of bright and moody was a cool nuance that attracted me. It’s funny, the project name of The Light was ‘Deadmau5 meets Two Shell’ for a while. The Light and Silver Lining are the most extreme examples of this new melodic adventure, the rest of the EP came after that and explores this sound in a more subtle way.
Your collab with French II, Silver Lining – tell us all about you created the vocals and how is that powerful main synth created?
So, about the vocals: it’s a couple of vocal chops from Output’s Arcade – a handy tool for vocal samples. You can adjust the key in the plugin and it has built-in chop/effects options that are useful for making the samples sound less generic.
After messing around for a while we came up with this little loop. I feel like to keep a degree of catchiness to your songs it’s important to keep it simple. To avoid my songs sounding generic, I often use off-kilter-sounding synths and effects. For example, the vocal on itself is quite basic, but then adding FabFilter Saturn gave a bit-crushed glitch effect.
Arcade. Image: Output
Same goes for the chords. There’s not much happening rhythm-wise in the chords but using that powerful modulating pad from Sculpture, a stock Apple Logic Pro plugin, gives it an interesting twist while still keeping it simple at the core.
Do you have any secret sauce plugins?
Honestly, mostly those cheap, simple saturation plugins. I use Soundtoys’ Little Radiator and Waves’ Magma Lil Tube A BUNCH. Waves’ NLS Channel for a little more expansive sounding saturation too. For me, it’s all about making things warm without losing that high-frequency range too much. Saturation is just the way to go. I used to have this inside joke that I put Soundtoys’ Decapitator on literally every channel. I don’t do that anymore!
Ineffekt. Image: Angelina Nikolayeva
What about a guilty pleasure plugin?
The One-knob Brighter exciter effect from Waves.
What do you use without fully understanding?
Cableguys’ ShaperBox for sure. I have no idea how to work that thing without a preset. But I use it in every track – the presets are amazing. Someday, I’ll learn how to use it and go crazy with it.
Ineffekt’s High Hopes is set to be released August 11.
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Best sample packs of the month: August 2023We’ve got a new round up of scorching sample hits for you to check out. Our top picks for the month of August include club-ready techno and tech house loops, soulful female vocals, nostalgic lo-fi synths, found sound and world percussion, and a whole load of Reese bass.
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BandLab Sounds – Found Sounds & Foley
Found Sounds & Foley. Image: BandLab Sounds

Free
Download Found Sounds & Foley

Adding found sounds to your beats can be a great way to give them an organic flavour and make them stand out from the crowd. Our free pack from BandLab Sounds this month includes 104 one-shots of scrapes, motors, clangs, doors, engines and more.
A portable Zoom recorder was used to capture a range of sources including a wine glass, a tractor engine, a toaster, a tap, a large spring, some scissors, an oven door, a gas lift chair, an extractor fan, a car door, and a bike bell.
Editor’s note: BandLab Technologies is part of Caldecott Music Group, which is also the parent company of MusicTech, NME Networks.
ModeAudio – Symbolism
Symbolism cover. Image: ModeAudio

£18
Download ModeAudio Symbolism

Although it was released 25 years ago, Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children album still sounds fresh due to its characterful sound design that blends woozy analogue synths, crunchy hip hop beats and lo-fi ambiences.
ModeAudio’s Symbolism takes its cues from this sound along with that of other artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, who also released on Warp Records around the same time. The pack includes 156 loops from 74 to 104 bpm, and 75 drum one-shots, plus 89 MIDI files, and 69 synth tails that bring the loops to a smooth conclusion. It’s an atmospheric collection of drum, synth, guitar, vocal, FX and field recording sounds that feels both nostalgic and futuristic at the same time.
Loopmasters – Latin House Bangers
Latin House Bangers cover. Image: Loopmasters

£29.95
Download Loopmasters Latin House Bangers

This new Loopmasters pack fuses weighty house beats with Latin musical elements to create an intoxicating mix that draws influence from artists like Hugel, Classmatic and Andrugss. It includes 151 loops and 217 one-shots of driving synth bass, syncopated drums, mixed percussion and FX, plus guitars, pianos and keys.
Arguably the best part though, are the 25 live trumpet loops that have been captured via a Neumann TLM67 mic. Although it’s designed for Latin house music at 128 bpm, these loops could be relevant for a range of house sub genres.
Thick Sounds – Tech House Oscillations
Tech House Oscillations cover. Image: Thick Sounds

£24.95
Download Thick Sounds Tech House Oscillations

There are a lot of tech house packs out there, but this one especially pricked up our ears because of the tight production and infectious grooves. Tech House Oscillations is inspired by artists such as Mark Knight, D. Ramirez, Carl Cox and Dusky, and includes 725MB of club-ready content.
In detail, there are 136 loops, 132 one-shots, 10 bass and synth multisample kits, and 3 construction kits, with 6 stems each. On top of this, you also get 71 MIDI files and 10 preset files for NI’s Massive synth.
Loopmasters – Lovers Rock Vocals
Lover Rock Vocals cover. Image: Loopmasters

£27.95
Download at Loopmasters

This beautiful pack of sultry female vocals draws inspiration from the golden era of lovers’ rock reggae and artists such as Carroll Thompson, Janet Kay and Luisa Mark. It features six distinct song kits from 90 to 130 bpm and in a range of keys.
Each features expertly captured dry female vocals, covering lead lines, and a handful of adlibs and spoken loops. Although these parts were written for over lovers’ rock backing tracks, the excellent, soulful performances could make them useful for a range of genres. Each song kit is also available to buy separately for £5.95 each.
Industrial Strength – BHK Samples Golden Age Drum & Bass
BHK Samples Golden Age Drum & Bass. Image: Industrial Strength

£49.95
Download Industrial Strength – BHK Samples Golden Age Drum & Bass

If you’re looking to craft forward thinking drum and bass but with a nod to the classics of the genre, then this new pack from Industrial Strength is well worth a look. It includes 117 expertly crafted breakbeats, top loops and basslines from 171 to 177 bpm.
Of more interest though, is the massive collection of 461 one-shots that cover bass hits, drum sounds, FX, leads, synths, atmos sounds and pads. There are even 67 different Reese bass sounds, which says a lot about the detail of the pack.
Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano. Image: Spitfire Audio

£149 (Pro), £79 (Core), Free (Discover)
Download at Spitfire Audio

It’s been a long time coming, but Spitfire Audio has finally added a piano to complement its BBC Symphony Orchestral library. It faithfully captures the sound of a pristine Steinway Model D grand recorded at Maida Vale Studios.
There are 15 mic positions to choose from and blend, including specific close mics, plus pedal and hammers volume for added control and realism. There are also two bespoke mix presets that offer an all-purpose orchestral sound, or a hyped, more vibrant mix for cinematic music. Other features include 4 round robins, 6 dynamic layers, reverb and tightness controls, and velocity curves, with the full library weighing in at 35GB. It’s also worth noting that you can get stripped back versions for the Core and Discover editions.
Mind Flux – Hypnotic Techno
Hypnotic Techno cover. Image: Mind Flux

£29.95
Download at Mind Flux

Mind Flux know a thing or two about techno music, and this latest sample pack release is no exception. Hypnotic Techno blends entrancing synth patterns, driving and powerful sounding beats, and deep atmospheric loops inspired by artists such as Drunken Kong, Slam and KiNK, and labels like Moonshine, Soma and Hypercolour.
This concise but captivating collection includes 65 drum loops, 9 bass loops, 10 synth loops, 10 atmosphere loops and 10 FX loops. You also get 11 FX one-shots to help punctuate big moments and smooth over transitions.
Organic Loops – KV Bala Master of Percussion
KV Bala Master of Percussion cover. Image: Organic Loops

£39.95
Download Master of Percussion

This massive percussion pack sees multi-percussionist K.V. Balakrishnan performing a wide range of instruments, with a fusion of traditional Indian rhythms and popular western music across 60 construction kits.
There are 1365 loops in total, which include Afro Shakers, Bongo, Cabasa, Dholak, Ghatam, Kanjira, Maracas, Finger Cymbals, Tabla, Egg Shakers and more. Tempos range from 80 to 100 bpm, and you get both individual loops, and mixed percussion groups for a fuller sound. You’ll also find 76 male vocal loops that can be layered in to create more intricate rhythmic textures.
Crazy Sampling – Pringles Kit
Pringles Kit cover. Image: Crazy Sampling

Free
Download Pringles Kit

We thought we’d end with something a little different. This unique free sample instrument has been crafted using only the sounds of a Pringles tube. It includes 2 octaves of percussive sounds that have been performed by tapping, hitting and scraping different parts of the tube. There are also 3 octaves of tuned percussive sounds so that you can play melody parts.
It’s a simple but fun and effective instrument for adding some organic sound to a track, and the GUI includes controls for Cutoff, Volume, Reverb and Distortion.
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Magma Springs Reverb plug-in from Waves The latest addition to Waves' Magma series contains a range of spring reverb models that aim to capture the nostalgic spirit and sound of a variety of musical styles and eras.

Classical Highlights for July 2023The Linos Piano Trio (pictured) gave us a notable performance of Ravel. Other new releases you might want to hear are violinist Daniel Hope's New Music for a New Century and piano concertos by Rautavaara and Martinu played by Dalia Stasevska.

New Music Critique: RashaannRashaannContact: rashaann10.karma@gmail.com

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N.Y.C. emcee Rashaann channels the old school on his latest release Far From Home. The title track clocks in at over 8 minutes, and, right out of the gate, Rashaann raps quickly reflecting on his past and present, encouraging through the lessons he’s learned. Given the length, you can imagine there is movement, though we feel there is not enough variance in his delivery or the smooth jazz instrumental. “Unfinished Business” features an exciting crunch rock guitar on a loop. The song sounds like a cypher by De La Soul or Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, with multiple guests and fluid verses. “Times Like This” is emotional and observational, with enticing soul samples spiced up with Rashaann’s jokes and wordplay.

This California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car dataThe troves of data collected by today’s modern connected cars has long been viewed as a cash cow — a yet untapped opportunity that could boost profits for automakers. Now one California agency wants to know exactly how that data might be used.
The California Privacy Protection Agency announced plans this week to review the data privacy practices of automakers that make and sell connected vehicles embedded with all kinds of data-mining features, from cameras and location sharing to web-based entertainment and smartphone integration.
“Modern vehicles are effectively connected computers on wheels. They’re able to collect a wealth of information via built-in apps, sensors, and cameras, which can monitor people both inside and near the vehicle,” CPPA executive director Ashkan Soltani said in a statement. The aim, Soltani said, is “to understand how these companies are complying with California law when they collect and use consumers’ data.”
The CPPA’s review is a first in the United States, where automakers have enjoyed a more lax data privacy environment compared to Europe. But that could soon change, at least in states that have passed data privacy laws like California, Connecticut, Colorado, Utah and soon Virginia.
So far, California is the first to conduct a review of how automakers use connected car data, an action that aligns with the state’s lead in data privacy laws. The Agency is conducting this review under the California Consumer Privacy Act, a law adopted in 2018 that gives individuals in the state the right to know the personal information collected about them by businesses, the right to delete that information and the right to stop its sale or sharing.
Privacy advocates have raised concerns about the downside of connected cars for years because these vehicles often automatically gather consumers’ locations, personal preferences, and other details about their daily lives. Those concerns have grown as automakers have stepped up their software game in a bid to catch up with Tesla.
Today, a new 2023 model year vehicle likely has an infotainment system with an array of third-party apps as well as cameras, including one facing the driver as part of its advanced driver assistance system. A growing number of vehicles have “Google built-in,” software based on the company’s Android operating system that has been adapted for automotive and integrates all of Google’s app directly into the vehicle.
The agency said California has more than 35 million vehicles registered in the state. That’s not counting the millions more registered in other states that are on California roads. This saturation of connected cars has implications even for individuals who don’t own the vehicle, including ride-hailing customers and even pedestrians.
Internet-connected vehicles produce huge amounts of data when driven, data which is then shared with manufacturers and held for years under privacy policies that allow vast and near-unrestricted use of the data they collect. Manufacturers can share or sell that information with data brokers, which when combined with web browsing and phone data can be used to profile users for targeted advertising.
Collecting huge amounts of vehicle data also makes it obtainable by law enforcement agencies, which can demand vehicle data from in-car entertainment systems, collected by car manufacturers, and used for tracking and surveillance.
Google noted in a statement provided to TechCrunch that it does not have access to any vehicle data unless automakers choose to license Google products.
“In all instances data is used in accordance with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy,” the company said, providing a link to that policy. “Drivers also have the option to change privacy settings for Google apps and services at any time. This extends to what is shared with third parties.”
GM pointed TechCrunch to its policy as well, noting that it is committed to protecting customers’ personal information.
“GM takes data privacy seriously and is committed to safeguarding personal information,” the company said in an emailed statement. “For every GM vehicle, the vehicle owner must accept GM’s User Terms and Privacy Statement to use these products and services. These documents detail our data practices and are available online for consumers to review.”

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GameStop will stop support for its crypto wallets, citing ‘regulatory uncertainty’The retail company used to be known primarily for its brick-and-mortar retail stores but has also launched an NFT marketplace and a soon-to-be-canceled line of crypto wallets.

Dua Lipa faces new lawsuit over ‘Levitating’ as producer Bosko Kante sues for alleged copyright infringement on remixesLawyers for Bosko Kante, a music producer, engineer and entrepreneur, filed a complaint on Monday (July 31)
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Sound Devices expand Astral wireless series Sound Devices' latest wireless system promises to offer a portable and rugged solution for live and recording applications anywhere in the world.