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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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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I'm still not sure if those require giving the car a WiFi/cellular connection or if it'll just use it's own... I've heard that cars use their own SIMs to phone home, but I don't actually know how prevalent that is

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