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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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[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

We just bought a new car this year (Kia) and I completely confused the sales lady when I told her we were not going to use the "connect app" or activate connect on the car itself. She was like "lets get you setup in connect" and I was "no thanks"

We have a nice 🚫 symbol with a radio tree behind it, so I 100% know the car is still connected to the cell network but it is not registered/connected to us, and no app installed.

Sure, we lose some functionality (remote start, and access to in-car wifi) but all of that is paid subscriptions. Sure they first x months are 'free' but after you gotta pony up $ to continue.

Note: I'm under no illusion tracking is just not happening for us now... I just want to make it harder where I can.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks 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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