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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1432229/your-car-is-a-smartphone-on-wheels-a-team-of-researchers-tested-21-vehicles-and-found-th

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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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

It must have a sim card somewhere right? How else is it phoning home?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    eSIM. Gotta gut the modem and hopefully not break anything

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Maybe start with removing the fuse for the modem to make sure nothing essential breaks?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Worth a shot. The question is whether the modem has its own fuse and isn’t integrated into the head unit

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Oh ya for sure it has a sim.

    If it were my daily driver I'd dig in, find the antenna and shunt it to ground so it could not communicate

    My wife is already not fully onboard with my need for privacy from these companies so I won regarding not activating the car but not sure she'd let me start pulling panels to find and kill the antenna.

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