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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think (www.theverge.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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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

My car was the last year before the model got a new spy stereo. I'm sure it has some in it, but nothing compared to later years and higher trims. I will hang onto it until it starts shooting engine pieces out the exhaust.

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