Thread regarding Ford layoffs

I have grave concerns about how customer data is currently being handled. Ford decided to copy all Ford data to a Hadoop data lake. The security and controls that governed the original data was not propagated to the data lake. This was brought to the attention of IT management and Ford internal auditors (customer data in the open in plain text for unauthorized personnel to view and exploit). Both IT management and the auditors swept the problem under the rug as they did not want senior leadership to be aware of the issues.
In one case the IT management performed a CYA move of getting the business team to sign off on the lack of security and controls on PII customer data by telling them it was impossible to secure the customer data in the data lake. The business team not wanting to upset senior leadership signed off on the lack of security and controls.
In another case the two IT personnel who pointed out the deficiencies were resource actioned.

The sad thing is that IT management continues to claim they are protecting customer data, when they clearly are only protecting the original copy of the data, while not protecting the copies of the customer data.

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Good Point.
I think Ford is taking baby steps by setting up the commercial vehicle segment first. If they can prove this to be an efficiency in all aspects of commercial transportation, then I believe the governments of the EU will jump on the bandwagon and mandate it for the greater population. Of course they will have full oversite.

Money on monetizing information will be tough. Europe has strong laws on collecting and selling information. If Ford does not abide by the rules the current warrantee costs will seem very small compared to litigation costs and public backlash.
The tide is turning in USA with regard to people blindly allowing their information to be collected and sold so again, the same problems will occur in the USA.
Where exactly is the profits from data monetization going to occur? China?

The town halls and other meetings all have the ring of desperation when one pipe dream after another is presented as FMC salvation.

The majority of the quality issues are forgotten by the public (and Ford) once they are out of the headlines. Electric vehicles are fairly easy to design and assemble compared to the ICE based powertrains. This has greatly reduced the traditional barriers to entry into the transportation market which has brought a lot of new players with it. I think FMC will survive in the BEV / Connected world but it will be a fraction in size of what it is today. Most of their profits at that point will be from monetizing information, not production.

If Ford could recover all of the Quality/Warranty spend losses, Ford could buy NASA a new Mars rover.

Ford would rather invest in the Cologne facilities for electric dies vehicles distracting from all the quality issues they had with vehicles in USA. Problem same quality issues in Europe so basically good luck ford nobody wants to buy ur sh–. LOL

The investment in FOE says it all.