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Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning (www.bbc.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you own your car (not paying off a loan or a lease) you can remove the sim card/ internet module from your car. It may cause some features to stop working (nothing that impares the vehicle) but it stops the car from actually sending the data it's collecting

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope. They'll jump the air gap when the mechanic plugs it in

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just avoid dealerships and instead use independent mechanics that are hip to your scheme. I bet some mechanics could even use it as a selling point; no hooking up telemetry or even offering services to remove or disable the monitoring systems. I'd use that mechanic for everything.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago

And what software and hardware do you think the independent mechanic uses to pull data from your car's computer?