- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ca
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.


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
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.
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.
It’s in the article that they were responding to. So you are just wildely throwing out negativity without any comprehension.
That edit with the link came after my comment it seems
It’s also in the article OP posted…
Stop hitting them, they already dead.
No it’s not, that’s a different graph although it has similar data.