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How Your New Car Tracks You (12ft.io)

submitted 2 years ago by admin@exploding-heads.com to c/digitslfreedom@exploding-heads.com

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The Vehicle Privacy Report creates privacy labels under two broad categories: what a manufacturer collects (including identifiers, biometrics, location, data from synced phones, and user profiles) and whom a manufacturer sells or shares data with (affiliates, service providers, insurance firms, government, and data brokers). For the vast majority of cars and trucks released in the past few years, it’s likely that most types of data are collected.

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[–] squashkin@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

any guides on how to disable it?

[–] masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it sucks. Maybe best to have a new car for reliability and a fixed up old car for privacy.

[–] masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just bought a Tesla. It probably records me taking a shit somehow. It's just so cool though. Had me thinking if anyone will ever jail break these smart cars.

[–] admin@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago

GrapheneOS for Tesla

[–] Owner_of_donky@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think several years ago there was some company that unlocked the car’s full potential for 1/2 of the price of the original update. I don’t remember their name nor what happened to them but they probably got sued

[–] masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 2 points 2 years ago

An open source hack I think would be legal. Selling it could violate a few laws. Especially because some of the safe guards are like legal things.

[–] Owner_of_donky@donky.social 1 points 2 years ago

This thing isn't new. In fact since car started to become smarter they collect information

[–] DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I'll be driving my current vehicle for as long as possible. This data harvesting in cars is ridiculous.