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Thousands Of Tesla EVs Can Be Located In Real Time, Security Researcher Finds (insideevs.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Last time I checked, Teslas always emit a Bluetooth ID, so it's possible to crowdsource Tesla car tracking.

And by "possible," I mean "already done"!

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

You have to be pretty close to use Bluetooth to identify a car. If you're that close, you can likely identify the car by looking at it and uniquely identify it with its license plate.

Like, this is technically an issue unique to Tesla, but it's so very close to what license plate readers can already do that I don't really see an issue with this.