Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes...
  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    19·
    2 days ago

    Ok, so to find out the privacy settings of my car I need to send more personal data to a random website…

    Sigh, just give me a list of cars to choose from

    • pezhore@infosec.pub
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’ve looked at both the EFF and Mozilla reports. Literally every car manufacturer (available in the US) is absolute shit for data privacy.

      I’ll be driving my 2006 Subaru Forester until it falls apart on the side of the road.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, that is what I have seen as well, I have a 2021 Seat Leon PHEV, it has an integrated SOS and breakdown service button, and the Infotainment shows me a signal strength even though my phone isn’t connected.

        So I am probably fucked on that.

        But I tend to constantly listen to podcasts, so if they record audio, I hope they are quite confused about the odd topics discussed

  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
    13·
    2 days ago

    Because of a post earlier this week I’ve already started looking into this from a different angle. That angle being disabling the data from being transmitted since that is going to be the least intrusive and most reversible, and most trustworthy that my data isn’t being collected anyway(see google lawsuit or gravy analytics breach)

    Not able to find the discussions online about my specific model of car but I have found a truck enthusiast forum that has some rather deep dives into disabling telemetry. They got so far down that rabbit hole that they found connections on the board that theoretically you could plug a usb into and reprogram it, but that’s getting too into the weeds if you ask me

    I’m hoping it’s similar enough that it can apply to my car.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Why do we have to provide a VIN instead of just a year, make, and model? I feel like entering my VIN into this website will just give them another metric to report on me, and help them link my online identity with my car identity.