All cars with android auto do that as well.
Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says
Submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to privacyguides@lemmy.one
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NoLifeKing@ani.social 9 months ago
SharkAttak@kbin.social 9 months ago
My car is old, but I don't feel a great need to change it, wonder why..
bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Anyone happen to know where the sim card is?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Toyota has insisted it takes customer privacy “extremely seriously”, but has acknowledged the data communication module (DCM) – known as the “Connected Services” feature – can only be disabled but not removed from its cars, or else drivers could void their warranty and render Bluetooth and speakers non-functional.
Following an investigation, Choice has found Toyota’s “Connected Services” feature “collects information such as vehicle location, driving data, fuel levels, and even phone numbers and email addresses”.
A Choice investigation found one customer, Matthew, claimed he only learned about the Connected Services feature a few months after buying his $68,000 Toyota HiLux when he began receiving emails asking him to register for it.
Feeling uncomfortable about the feature, the Queensland father asked the dealership to remove – not just deactivate – the technology from his car, but claimed he was told this would void the warranty and risk his insurance.
He called on the federal government to bolster safeguards and introduce prohibitions on the collection and use of personal data as a matter of urgency.
The spokesperson said that while disconnecting the sim card would not void the warranty, a customer who elected to physically remove the DCM with a third party – because Toyota won’t – “does so at their own risk”.
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MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 months ago
Anyone pull the SIM card on one of these? Any interesting consequences?
misanthropy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Can’t pull an esim, and even if you could the modem is integrated with the rest of the electronics
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You can snip the antenna but it will just upload the data whenever you get it serviced.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can they share personal information if you don’t connect to Android Auto?
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They have their own cellular modems
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I understand that they can share my location, but what personal information will they share? Are they photographing me inside my car? Are they recording me and sending it to the company? How do they know who my grandmother is unless I said her name out loud?
bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Verify that your device does not share your contact book and texts over bluetooth (will break the infotainment built in “call X person” feature should you use that over your phones assistant for some reason)
Its usually in the bluetooth settings for a particular device paired to your phone
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use an MP3 player to play music in a car and I don’t connect my mobile phone to the car at all.
Substance_P@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Mozilla Foundation found that in late 2023, 92 percent of the automakers reviewed provided drivers with little to no control over their personal data. Additionally, 84 percent shared user data with third parties.
Why isn’t there more consumer outrage over this? And why haven’t lawmakers addressed this on a national level, given the potential dangers posed by this data collection?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s too exhausting. Everything is bad in one way or another and I just want to live my life.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Question 2 answers question 1