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Volkswagen has been collecting geolocation data from their smart cars, which were accidentally made public (infosec.exchange)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 97 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I live in a small, rural community. The county sheriff's department just announced how they bought the GPS tracking data for every vehicle in the county and how it's going to "help calm traffic because they can predict where people are going to be speeding and can have an officer waiting"

The pre-crime department is starting and no one batted an eye.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Every time I hear something like this I'm glad I bought an old car without any connectivity.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same, for now. Although, we have two ICE vehicles and want to swap to electric. I haven't looked, but I can't imagine there's a great selection of electric, but 'dumb' in the US, considering GPS was mandatory for new vehicles in .. 2016, I think?

    I've also heard people say you can just pull the fuse for the GPS, but I'm still skeptical.

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