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[–] [email protected] 216 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Imo, the only solution is every device with an antenna must be legally required to put a manual off switch.

Cell service, wifi, Bluetooth, any future service. If it broadcasts it needs a physical off switch.

If I sold my car to a government official and they found out I had hidden a camera, microphone and GPS in the car, I'd get a visit from the FBI. Yet companies do it with impunity. Does the CEO of Subaru have recordings of Bernie Sanders driving in his car?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The current generation of the ford mustang Mach-e has its mobile telemetry cellular antenna wired to an isolated fuse that you can just pull out to kill it. I was astonished to learn how straight forward the process is supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't trust that they won't save the data and upload it during a servicing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point. A Lemmy user claimed that happened to him with his Ford.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A link would be better than hearsay

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I don't know why you care. It's still hearsay because as I said, it was another Lemmy claiming it.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9399531

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And each type of communication needs it's own switch. Don't let them pull some BS trying to make you enable all the hardcore tracking via a cell network just because you want to connect to Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

its* own switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

For phones, Pinephone is very nearly this. The only thing is that GPS and cell service are on the same switch (because they're handled by the same chip on the board)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Right to the temple of anyone who decided it was OK to do this kind of data collection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

For phones, Pinephone is very nearly this. The only thing is that GPS and cell service are on the same switch (because they're handled by the same chip on the board)