Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So… hows the industry for stripping all this crap and then some. Cant imagine there isnt one for atleast repair and replacement.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not gonna go anywhere. At least not in a lot of modern countries. Vehicle safety authorities dont fuck around. And unless you have the bankroll mercedes and volkswagen have you are gonna get sued into oblivion for violating a bunch of stuff. Or just sued until they bleed you dry

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I live in California, so long as it passes smog and the check engine light aint on they dont give a fuck. Mostly cause the car modding scene here is somewhat demented.

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• PutangInaMo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  standard protocol on a lot of cars is to just download everything off the phone that it can access.

  First I’m hearing about this capability. How do you figure they’re doing that with a Bluetooth connection?

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  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Key word is access. Not everything on your phone is available to the vehicle, but if, for instance, you allow your car to access your contacts, it downloads all of them with all the metadata which the company can then sell. Or internally run through algorithms to profile you and everyone who uses your vehicle. If you use Android Auto or CarPlay, or just connect to the entertainment systems, they’ll skim whatever metadata they can and phone it home. Even worse if you use a car’s official app, it will use your own phone as the transmission point.

    No, it doesn’t immediately transmit an entire backup of your phone over a personal Bluetooth connection, but I was very precise in how I worded my sentence.

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