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2024 mustang extensive invasions of privacy (youtu.be)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No one tells you when you buy the car all of the shit you are agreeing to. This needs to be changed.

This car doesn't let you drive over 80mph. It reads speed limit signs and has a database apparently. The owners manual says it will provide that data to law enforcement.

This is insane. There needs to be awareness of this so people can, at the very least, know to ask before they buy. As it stands no one even knows this shit until they sign the papers and look at the owners manual.

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[+] [email protected] -18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Also all these things he talks about you can just turn off lol.

Don't want the car to send data? Turn it off...

Don't want the speed limiter to be on? Turn it off...

Edit: lol why am I being downvoted? I'm right. Both are in car settings you can just turn off. Connectivity and speed limiter + traffic sign recognition.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you point to evidence that you can disable the speed limiter? I couldn't find anything except in a Mustang forum that said the only way was through a hardware tuner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have the GT parked in my garage. The options to turn off the sign recognition and change the cruise control limiter are under vehicle settings in my sync menu.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Have you actually verified whether you can turn this connectivity off? I know on other new cars it's embedded in the electronics with no on/off button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And how do we know the dealer isn't going to turn it back on after every service visit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Like how after every Windows update all my settings get reset 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's a setting in the car infotainment system under connectivity.

You have like 4 options. One for each of the data types (so you can turn off cellular data but leave on GPS), and one to turn it all off. When it's all off there is no data being sent to or from the car at all.

Love how lemmy just downvotes cause they don't like that answer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But they're all ON by default, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Depends on the country of sale and what the dealer does with it.

Some countries it has to be law be off by default.