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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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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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[–] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Find and disconnect the telemetry antenna. If the telemetry is in a discrete unit delete that too.

Don't do anything irreversible in case the manufacturer has booby trapped the car to go in to limp mode without the portable flock setup.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Okay, but how do they fill the giant hole in the middle of the dash now?

(/srs can just cut off all antennas but this will make the computer waste battery trying to connect so the car may not start after a while if it's combustion engine)

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's the interface to you not the one to the cell, in case anyone doesn't know.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Usually both because cheaper. Usually.