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How bad is Android Auto for privacy on a stock Pixel phone. What can the car and car vendor get access to.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 40 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Android Auto is just a projection of the information on your phone so, as far as I know, it's as private as your phone is.

Of course there's always the possibility that the vehicle itself is doing a screen capture and processing the information on the display to send back to their servers but...seems unlikely on account of the processing power required for that.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I was recently very interested to learn that, if I run a VPN on my phone, Auto immediately calls out the VPN as a problem and refuses to connect to my car until it's disconnected.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just ran into this too. Had to whitelist the app. Felt dirty and probably is...

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys have no idea what a VPN does or how wireless Android Auto works.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/google-needs-to-stop-blocking-vpns-on-android-auto-heres-how-to-fix-it

Maybe we're just using VPN's differently than you'd expect. For example, I use Blokada, a local VPN for reducing ad/tracking services embedded in apps. I don't actually send my traffic to a remote server.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
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