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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think (www.theverge.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52944835

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much more. The legality of this […]

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[-] aizakku@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

I’ve got an ‘08 myself and I’m in the same boat. Gonna keep it at this vintage or older when I need a new one but I’ll drive it till it dies.

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