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New cars are a privacy nightmare:

They’re not only monitoring everything the driver does and reporting it to credit agencies without their knowledge, they’re also surveillance machines which send data of everything around them to data brokers. American politicans are banning TikTok in the name of privacy but not passing any privacy laws or caring that new vehicles are recording and selling all activity that takes in public and is visible from the street.

https://archive.is/0wqhh

evacide @evacide · 96w

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

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Daniel Cadenas · 96w

Even worse, once this subscription model for car features becomes popular https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/13/23206999/car-subscription-nightmare-heated-seats-remote-start

Yep. Combustion engine fully and maximally mechanical ftw

And you can't turn off their internet. Crazy times.

llamasrus · 96w

Americans lawmakers won’t pass any privacy laws to prevent this because they firmly believe in “its okay if we do it”.

Sebastix · 96w

Uh yes. That’s why I like the 90-00 Japanse cars 🤓 and I hope this will take off one day and everyone can flash his car computer: https://www.automotivelinux.org/ Not sure how ‘free’ the software is tbh

Dawlat Moustafa · 96w

There’s no where to hide from surveillance, especially when every surveillance camera and even every satellite are used for that purpose. Besides the car doesn’t have to be new if you have a phone and using GPS for maps or any other app.

Actually Ford is by far more intrusive than any other manufacturer.

Annie☕ · 96w

ITS has been around for decades. They've been tracking your car by license plate number since the 1990s.

buy old cars and keep a mechanic on retainer 😊

Still driving manual. No oem head unit.

Zaqan Gabar · 96w

It's ironic how tech like TikTok faces privacy scrutiny while new cars' extensive surveillance flies under the radar. Instead of waiting for comprehensive laws, decentralized technologies like Bitcoin and nostr offer a way to exit the system, putting data control back into our hands.

boston wine · 96w

It’s truly absurd that we all drive around in vehicles that track and log everywhere we go, and any cellphone contents we grant access to. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the cars are sending some of that data back to the automaker in real-time, to be packaged and sold to data companies an...