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Bad-At-Privacy Car Companies Now Have to Answer to the FTC (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 8 months ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is good news, hopefully the FTC actually does something.

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagine spending good money on a product and then some creep is able to track your every move, collect that data and then sell it some other creep.

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That isn’t what you’re getting with any cell phone?

[–] onion@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not if you install a degoogled rom :)

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Carrier data aggregation entered the chat.

[–] onion@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

Touché. But the less the better

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

You don't have to have it out of a Faraday bag/turned on everywhere you go, only when using it directly.

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

SIM card tracks location and sells it too

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can put your phone in a Faraday bag.

How am I going to do that to my car :(

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

In steps, and you kinda drive onto it

Not great for mobile operation, however 😬

[–] Dr_Evil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cell phones don't cost tens of thousands of dollars and have easy ways to get around tracking if you're really concerned. While I can avoid certain apps on my phone or install a different os, doing something similar for new cars is currently impossible apart from tearing it apart to find and unplug the modem.

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can't stop location tracking on cellular devices. If it's connected to a cell tower, you're being tracked and profiled.

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Carrier is still slurping your dataz.