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Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. (www.consumerreports.org)
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Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

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[–] 16 points 1 week ago

It should be more explicitly clear whether this tracking relies on you installing their app or not.

I’m personally more concerned with what tracking the vehicle is broadcasting or collecting without the app… SiriusXM, built-in GPS and cellular, etc.

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