Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I'm basically in the position that I'm driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I'll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.
Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.
That's kinda extreme lol but I hope that companies start selling non smart cars. I don't want my car to be smart , I want my car to take me to point A and B , and be able to fix it myself.
Get ready for the Pine Car
Getting a base model can somewhat help too. My 2020 car only has carplay. No built in navigation or any remote or homing tech (that I know of). It’s the higher trims that get all the fancy tech “features”.
Oh my god, no. No, no, no.
Just because they aren't making those features available to you doesn't mean they aren't still tracking all that stuff.
People are starting to comment on the topic and take notice? That is great to hear. It is not often that this happens when such a study is released. It might be that ordinary people who lack the knowledge on the subject may be able to comprehend the concerns regarding privacy in cars more readily than in other areas. Whatever the case is, I'm happy the discussion is finally happening.
Huge props to Mozilla on this one - their article is clear and thorough. A lot of the studies are very vague, limited in scope, or way too technical, which makes them hard to share and discuss broadly.
Ever since Jeep released their current gen Cherokee and two hackers revealed that they could hack into the entirety of the car by just knowing the phone number of the car's hotspot, I have avoided new cars like the plague
Thanks for this. I'm not in USA but I had chatgpt summarize my vehicle manufacturers privacy policy. Its wasn't great, so I sent an email to their privacy inbox. Next, I'll email my politicians.
maybe I'm a little behind the times when it comes to cars, but shouldn't it be relatively trivial on the community scale to create foss head unit OS's? are there other components that phone home besides the head unit? most cars have replaceable head units anyway, right? I feel like I must be missing something here
How exactly do they collect info other than GPS?
How are people interacting with the "radio" that it's given so much info?
Are new vehicles required to be connected to phone network to function?
What functionality is lost of not connected.
As a motorist who prefers to drive cheap cars that have a little tech as possible so that there is little to go wrong and what goes wrong I can fix myself I know nothing about the latest gen of cars
Cars are mandated to have a "SIM" (I don't know how this is implemented, that's a question for the engineers) inside that can be connected at all times. This was originally meant for faster accident response, and I'm assuming car companies have contracts with the Telecom companies (someone from the engineering/law teams help me here) to transmit data over their networks even when the user's devices are not connected
There's no S in IOT
The S in IoT stands for Security
My joke but better
I'm not sure how much it matters that people are taking notice. If all cars are doing it, what can we do? It's not like people can't buy cars anymore and it's not like individual people can pay off politicians to make it illegal like large corporations can to make it legal.
There are a few options I guess. If enough people notice then there may be more money in being the company that respects privacy and just charges more for the car up front.
It might even encourage more people to buy used instead of new.
Or some people might just decide they don't need a car.
Caring is the first step to actively doing something. The more people that know, the more that will care and the more people that will act. Gotta start somewhere.
Depending on your vehicle.. It's possible to remove all the Nanny tracking via some DIY hacks or even a call to "opt out"