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Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid (arkadiyt.com)
submitted 2 days ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Congratulations - your car no longer has the capability to transmit telemetry data. Of course it may still be captured to local storage and can be physically collected later, but for me that was fine.

Yeah, and it’s unknown how much telemetry the car keeps. Hopefully, the removal of GPS means the car no longer logs every location the car travels, but without that there are some reports that modern vehicles keep years of GPS data locally, so it’s possible for an intruder like law enforcement to see everywhere you’ve ever taken your vehicle.