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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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[–] andreas@lemmy.korfmann.xyz 8 points 8 months ago

ah crap. I don't use all the "Uconnect" garbage on my 9 year old Jeep, but it does appear though the dealer can collect (read: steal) info if I bring it in (I do maintenance myself but I have brought it in for recall fixes before). As far as "smart" stuff goes, I do connect my phone via bluetooth but I run GrapheneOS on my mobile so hopefully this mitigates some stuff. I've always thought it was just cars with data connections and cameras/self-driving modules that were the problem (at least in my understanding of networking vis-a-vis my background in network development, but then again cars run different firmware)