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Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. (www.consumerreports.org)

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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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[–] hneerqe@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Would rather drive a rust bucket. I do drive a rust bucket. I'm not affraid of scratching it. I don't feel I have to always keep it pristine clean. I'm not affraid of working on it myself. I'm not being ~~charged~~ robbed subscriptions for equipment already installed. I'm not wondering wether I'm being tracked by sick fucking creeps.