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What do you do for a modern car? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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assuming you need gps and radio on

family wants a car thats 2020 or younger t and toyota

also if you have dashcam suggestions let me know

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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Honestly with many modern cars, yes even electric you can turn of most things like GPS and data tracking if you put the time and energy in too jt. But you might loose out on many features. If you dont care about most features just get the more basic model. And even then the data tracking that exist can be shut off someway or another. I know with Audi you can program things out with VAG Odis.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Got any documentation on that? My understanding is that it isn't "most" cars that you can disable the privacy violating features, but relatively few.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You can safely assume that turning anything off in "settings" does little to nothing as far as data collection. Gamers Nexus already proved that with TVs and EFF has done some reports on how terrible cars are.

    Physically removing the LTE and WiFi modules is pretty much the only way to actually turn off spying data harvesting...

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