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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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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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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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Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports
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New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.

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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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      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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        I know for a fact Ford ships a modem with a SIM and they use it sparingly because it’s expensive. Don’t know abt the rest.

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      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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        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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          That edit with the link came after my comment it seems

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            It’s also in the article OP posted…

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              Stop hitting them, they already dead.

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              No it’s not, that’s a different graph although it has similar data.

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