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‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test (www.mozillafoundation.org)
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[–] 33 points 8 months ago (10 children)

This is why if you buy a car, you should get a "dumb" car.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Serious question, what is the best solution to this? My household has three cars, the newest is from 2008. It makes me nervous as to what to do if I wanted a "new" car (I'd never buy an actual new car, just new to me and made in the last ten years).

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    We need to find a way to cripple cars' connectivity.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If the data is stored in the car, that just changes the timing of the privacy breach, not its existence.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    There are a lot of serious issues that get recalled that need to be fixed in software nowadays. If you disable the radio, sure you're safe, but like you mention, if its stored on the car, now you either forego addressing recalls and risk your life, or you take it into the service center to manually update it and they get the data then.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Remove the spyware junk. All you'd practically use (beside the driving essentials itself) is radio, heating, lighting, warning signs, aircon, and that's it, really.* A Faraday cage can also help.

    * Not gonna lie, something in me wonders whether those also have spyware or not... but either way.

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