Let’s be 100% clear, all of these cars with “smart” features are collecting your data and selling it. Insurance companies are also buying this information and using it to raise premiums if they determine you a “bad driver.” Also this could reveal info such as where you live if anyone is determined enought depending on the info if stores (such as geolocation data).
Basically I’m saying wrap your car in tinfoil
Basically I’m saying wrap your car in tinfoil
and don’t ever let diagnostic tools with network access be connected to it. just as well could say never bring it to service, which is not really possible
At this point, just get a bicycle without a battery.
Of course, sometimes you need to move heavy stuff and there’s nothing you can do about it, bu I tend to save enough, not owning a car/motorbike that I can afford to pay for a pickup on those occasions.
A Volkswagen id4 was the best choice I had from work (Belgian companies give company cars for personal use as perks because of tax benefits).
I completely disagreed to all terms involving internet access in the vehicle, but I have no doubt they are tracking me without my consent too…
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It’s a shame that they deleted their data after their evaluation.
Should have checksummed the e-mail addresses and put a haveibeenpwned-like website up where car owners can check if they are affected.
Is there a company yet that let’s me pay them to internet disconnect and rip out sensors on a modern car?
Dacia doesn’t have that crap. They only have the mandatory SOS system.
BTW, if someone has a way to rip that system out, please share
Do they make an electric car that doesn’t have such sensors (eg cabin microphone) and doesn’t have internet access?
They do, the Dacia Spring has nothing like that if I’m not wrong
Edit: just checked, and it seems they added all the connected big screens crap, my bad
I don’t know about electric but the regular ones are available in basic versions without internet and “luxury” ones with all that crap
“Accidentally” is the new “through incompetence”
Negligence. Volkwagen can afford competence, but chose not to invest in it.
Has someone located the frequent visitors of “houses of ill repute” yet?
I would love to know how to disable telemetry on my own hard drive on wheels or at worst prevent it from phoning home. Mozilla did a great job bringing this issue to light but now we need actionable solutions that don’t rely on governments passing laws
Accidentally, lol. The point was to mine and sell the data, wasn’t it? Not exactly private.
GDPR/DORA monies when?
Is it identifiable? Can it be attributed to individual car level?
I don’t imagine it would be difficult to figure out, especially if you know someone’s address.
Looking at the map, assuming these models aren’t for sale in Poland, Czech and so forth?
Spain is mostly empty
I don’t get why they feel the need to keep it a secret.
Google takes GeoLocation data with maps and people happily use it. I even put reviews for places I go to.If they were to just be above board about it while selling the stuff, they would have much happier customers and they could even get some legitimate use out of the data, like traffic status that Google does.
I’m not a fan of Google, but must say, they definitely managed to do better in this regard.
