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.

beep@piefed.world · edit-2 10 hours ago

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.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 6 hours ago

Not Chinese, but yes, every modern car has a data only cellular connection of some sort. They can easily afford it because they’re selling your data to anyone who will buy it.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 5 hours ago

Fucking hell, I don’t even have an electric car but I wanted one. Can we just exist without having it be ruined?

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.

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.

Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports