And each type of communication needs it’s own switch. Don’t let them pull some BS trying to make you enable all the hardcore tracking via a cell network just because you want to connect to Bluetooth.
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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Imo, the only solution is every device with an antenna must be legally required to put a manual off switch.
Cell service, wifi, Bluetooth, any future service. If it broadcasts it needs a physical off switch.
KeepFlying@lemmy.world 6 months ago
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
its* own switch.
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For phones, Pinephone is very nearly this. The only thing is that GPS and cell service are on the same switch (because they’re handled by the same chip on the board)
LostXOR@fedia.io 6 months ago
There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If only I knew where.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Right to the temple of anyone who decided it was OK to do this kind of data collection.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Somewhere in the piece of plastic we somehow call a car. They don’t male them like they used to
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They sure don’t, cars continue to be safer, more durable, and require less service every model year. The median age of the automobiles on the rides gets older every year.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m not that nostalgic. Everything about my new car is better than my older cars. My 2023 minivan has a better 0-60 than my old V-8 Mustang while getting 2x the MPG. The only thing that is bad is the tracking.
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For phones, Pinephone is very nearly this. The only thing is that GPS and cell service are on the same switch (because they’re handled by the same chip on the board)
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
The current generation of the ford mustang Mach-e has its mobile telemetry cellular antenna wired to an isolated fuse that you can just pull out to kill it. I was astonished to learn how straight forward the process is supposed to be.
barsquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t trust that they won’t save the data and upload it during a servicing.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a good point. A Lemmy user claimed that happened to him with his Ford.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A link would be better than hearsay