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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think (www.theverge.com)
submitted 23 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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[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

I was thinking with a used hybrid the batteries could have very reduced capacity.

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

It will still get much better mpg even with lower quality batteries. Also for the record I'm driving a 13 year old electric car and while it only had a 70 mile range at release, I still generally get about 50 to 60 miles on a charge.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Thats pretty good. Thanks.

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