All modern cars collect unbelievably private info from you such as sexual activities, contacts, and innocuous driving habits (a pet cat coming to greet you as you get home triggering a near collision sensor, which is recorded and sent to insurance companies jacking up your rates tremendously). It is perhaps the most privacy invasive object a modern human can own, besides a smartphone.
The only way to avoid it is to find a way to deactivate the ability for the car to phone home information (sometimes via pulling a fuse), or by using an older car from before user tracking was viable and the norm (generally I’d say the cutoff is 2009, but around that era you’d still need to double check, and it must not be an OnStar equipped car).
They have integrated the telematics so deeply that theyre not even a separate part.
You could turn off all internet.connectivity, but so many people would not tolerate living without the conveniences they like. No caplays, remote start, etc.
Me, in a 2002 with a bluetooth speaker jammed above the ashtray/cig lighter because the tape deck is worn out: The fuck is “carplay?” I miss my tape deck.
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All modern cars collect unbelievably private info from you such as sexual activities, contacts, and innocuous driving habits (a pet cat coming to greet you as you get home triggering a near collision sensor, which is recorded and sent to insurance companies jacking up your rates tremendously). It is perhaps the most privacy invasive object a modern human can own, besides a smartphone.
The only way to avoid it is to find a way to deactivate the ability for the car to phone home information (sometimes via pulling a fuse), or by using an older car from before user tracking was viable and the norm (generally I’d say the cutoff is 2009, but around that era you’d still need to double check, and it must not be an OnStar equipped car).
Yeah I want a fancy car but I’m concerned about how hard it is to stop it phoning home.
That doesn’t stop car manufacturers from selling data from literally every other make/model and hacking up my rates.
You can’t.
They have integrated the telematics so deeply that theyre not even a separate part.
You could turn off all internet.connectivity, but so many people would not tolerate living without the conveniences they like. No caplays, remote start, etc.
I got carplay with a 3rd party screen and audio from a 3.5mm jack in my old ass Honda.
I’ll survive with some convenience.
Me, in a 2002 with a bluetooth speaker jammed above the ashtray/cig lighter because the tape deck is worn out: The fuck is “carplay?” I miss my tape deck.