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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1432229/your-car-is-a-smartphone-on-wheels-a-team-of-researchers-tested-21-vehicles-and-found-th

Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm still not sure if those require giving the car a WiFi/cellular connection or if it'll just use it's own... I've heard that cars use their own SIMs to phone home, but I don't actually know how prevalent that is

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

I know for a fact Ford ships a modem with a SIM and they use it sparingly because it's expensive. Don't know abt the rest.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That graphic is less than useless without any source to back it up though...for all we know this could be AI garbage you just generated.

[–] The_Jit@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's in the article that they were responding to. So you are just wildely throwing out negativity without any comprehension.