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EV that does not track my every move (www.mozillafoundation.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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I am sure this article has been shared before, however I wanted to have a look at this topic.
The articles short summary is this:

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

I am currently driving a 2014 Ford Fiesta which just has a radio with a CD player and Bluetooth. I do not need more than that in a car.

The reason I am looking at all is that that the Fiesta does not belong to me and the friend owning it will be moving out in a bit, so I kinda need another one.

There seems to be one brand that is not as bad as the other ones (but still bad): Renault; mozilla's review...
Maybe I will have a look at their cars.

What do you guys think? Stick to older used cars and not use an EV or look at which of the manufacturers have the least bad privacy policy?

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Depends entirely on the amount of data and the bandwidth.

Phoning home every hour is a couple of KB at most and doesn't matter how long it takes.

Streaming videos on the other hand, a lot more and you don't want to be waiting.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Makes me wonder if there's an easy way to get the car to start using a lot more bandwidth. Make the deal not worth it for the carriers anymore. Something that could be distributed for use on many cars, maybe used to give free internet to a wifi mesh in the vicinity of any of those cars.

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