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Need Help Finding Article on Car Privacy (self.privacy)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by sic_semper_tyrannis to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone's kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone's data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.

I've tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about and can provide a link?

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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But the phone's owner could have been a passenger. Seems unrealistic

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 2 points 7 months ago

Good point. I would like to understand it better if the data/info is out there

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 3 points 7 months ago

I didn't know about this opt out code. Pretty nifty. Thanks

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Mozilla did a research on it recently. And yes the infotainment system does send data to the insurance company in some countries. Do not use it unless you highly modify it to be privacy-respecting (which is illegal but whatever cuz privacy is more important)

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean its illegal for me to modify my own car's sound system?!?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Absolutely can be. They have a SIM card or an alternative of it. It's registered and tampering with it can lead to stuff up to real jail time (IMEI change)

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 1 points 7 months ago

I didn't realize they update their research. I just thought they produced the one a few months ago that swept the internet. I'll check it out again, thanks.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My question is: which cars have toggle switches built-in, or have a community of hackers that have published guides on how to turn off the car's internet access, microphones, cameras, and other unnecessary sensors...

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hate to admit I saw this on r/conspiracy. Maybe there's a link in there.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 1 points 7 months ago

Nothing wrong with that. I'll give it a look, thanks

[–] Vej@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

My friend was talking about this over the weekend. I really hope this is not true.