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I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

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[โ€“] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Speaking as someone who worked for a corporate auto maker, it won't be an easy task since they try to make it as difficult as possible to disable online activation if even providing the ability at all.

The only real solution is pulling the head unit and trying to find any modem and desolder it, which who knows if it would function as it had before hand since everything is integrated.

It will also hurt resale value.

[โ€“] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe you could build a faraday cage around it or something. Wrap it in foil.

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