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Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. (www.consumerreports.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1432229/your-car-is-a-smartphone-on-wheels-a-team-of-researchers-tested-21-vehicles-and-found-th

Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

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[–] 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm still not sure if those require giving the car a WiFi/cellular connection or if it'll just use it's own... I've heard that cars use their own SIMs to phone home, but I don't actually know how prevalent that is

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    That graphic is less than useless without any source to back it up though...for all we know this could be AI garbage you just generated.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's in the article that they were responding to. So you are just wildely throwing out negativity without any comprehension.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That edit with the link came after my comment it seems

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