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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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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota.

that is so fucking insidious

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Data will find a way.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 23 hours ago

Does iOS still not ask fully what the user wants to use the Bluetooth connection for? As bad as Android is I can't imagine it doing something like that without asking.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But one can also disable bluetooth tethering?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you use the phone to only allow Bluetooth media but nothing else?

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least on my pixel, I've got a setting to enable or disable sharing phones internet to bluetooth connections.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I don't seem to have this on my S23