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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data (techxplore.com)

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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data::Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called "privacy nightmare on wheels," according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

$80,000 brand new luxury sedan with a voided 30,000 mile warranty and permanently enabled check engine light more likely.

I imagine there is a radio stuffed under the hood that you can just pull the fuck out or disconnect the antennas running to it.

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

See, even if you cut the antenna, the transmitter is still there putting out a signal. Once you get close enough to a tower, in the right conditions, signal could get out, dumping any data stored. Disabling it by removing the SIM or the transmitter would be the best way to go, though I’m sure most are eSIM.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check this out. Forum talks about Toyota making you jump through hoops to disable it officially, or you can pull a fuse and lose access to hands free and other radio tools.

The move for Toyota seems to be to pull the fuse and install an aftermarket radio, in Ford’s case removal of the actual telemetrics box if the manufacturer has one installed in the select model is sufficient and does not disable anything important. I can’t fathom what Mercedes, BMW, and GM does as they are notorious for making things hard to access.

Edit: I recall GM had made intellisense or whatever the fuck it’s proprietary software is called open source since the car reminded me on every start up. I don’t recall ever seeing anything interesting made for it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are ways around hardware and software locks unofficially. I’m sure as soon as the same people that hack 3d printers get their hands on these in the second and third hand market the ways of spoofing or disabling the monitoring and feature locks will be many. Feel sorry for the rich idiot that pays monthly for his heated seats and wonders why he gets targeted ads.