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As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 MiO cars. Amazing detail and patterns. This is why I don't want a smart car 🤯 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen/ #Volksdaten
Let’s be 100% clear, all of these cars with “smart” features are collecting your data and selling it. Insurance companies are also buying this information and using it to raise premiums if they determine you a “bad driver.” Also this could reveal info such as where you live if anyone is determined enought depending on the info if stores (such as geolocation data).
I live in a small, rural community. The county sheriff’s department just announced how they bought the GPS tracking data for every vehicle in the county and how it’s going to “help calm traffic because they can predict where people are going to be speeding and can have an officer waiting”
The pre-crime department is starting and no one batted an eye.
Same, for now. Although, we have two ICE vehicles and want to swap to electric. I haven’t looked, but I can’t imagine there’s a great selection of electric, but ‘dumb’ in the US, considering GPS was mandatory for new vehicles in … 2016, I think?
I’ve also heard people say you can just pull the fuse for the GPS, but I’m still skeptical.
You can choose om the software if you want location services or not, but everyone leaves it on. This is what is leaked. If you turn it off it doesn’t report in location centrally at all.
and don’t ever let diagnostic tools with network access be connected to it. just as well could say never bring it to service, which is not really possible
At this point, just get a bicycle without a battery.
Of course, sometimes you need to move heavy stuff and there’s nothing you can do about it, bu I tend to save enough, not owning a car/motorbike that I can afford to pay for a pickup on those occasions.
Let’s be 100% clear, all of these cars with “smart” features are collecting your data and selling it. Insurance companies are also buying this information and using it to raise premiums if they determine you a “bad driver.” Also this could reveal info such as where you live if anyone is determined enought depending on the info if stores (such as geolocation data).
Basically I’m saying wrap your car in tinfoil
I live in a small, rural community. The county sheriff’s department just announced how they bought the GPS tracking data for every vehicle in the county and how it’s going to “help calm traffic because they can predict where people are going to be speeding and can have an officer waiting”
The pre-crime department is starting and no one batted an eye.
Every time I hear something like this I’m glad I bought an old car without any connectivity.
Same, for now. Although, we have two ICE vehicles and want to swap to electric. I haven’t looked, but I can’t imagine there’s a great selection of electric, but ‘dumb’ in the US, considering GPS was mandatory for new vehicles in … 2016, I think?
I’ve also heard people say you can just pull the fuse for the GPS, but I’m still skeptical.
You can choose om the software if you want location services or not, but everyone leaves it on. This is what is leaked. If you turn it off it doesn’t report in location centrally at all.
My car is a 2012, I’ll be holding onto it until it falls apart.
Just let the car deduct the points from my licence automatically already.
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USA?
Hmm. Is there a faraday vinyl I can wrap my car in?
Or, alternatively, would the pelts of tech billionaires offer any protection?
Or just pull the fuse to the antenna?
Are antennas usually behind a fuse?
Mine was, it’ll be called OnStar in the manual.
Here’s a post with a pic https://sh.itjust.works/post/16735052
Ah, pretty sure that’d be the whole OnStar transceiver, too (which isn’t a bad thing to disable…).
I thought the antenna itself was behind a fuse (as in, feedline has an inline fuse) which would be a peculiar design I think.
No, you’d never put a fuse between transceiver and antenna.
and don’t ever let diagnostic tools with network access be connected to it. just as well could say never bring it to service, which is not really possible
At this point, just get a bicycle without a battery.
Of course, sometimes you need to move heavy stuff and there’s nothing you can do about it, bu I tend to save enough, not owning a car/motorbike that I can afford to pay for a pickup on those occasions.