Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.

beep@piefed.world · edit-2 4 days ago

Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.

CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 days ago

It should be more explicitly clear whether this tracking relies on you installing their app or not.

I’m personally more concerned with what tracking the vehicle is broadcasting or collecting without the app… SiriusXM, built-in GPS and cellular, etc.

PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net · 4 days ago

C’mon CR - level the playing field by detailing how to prevent it for all of them.

Sproid 🕸 :spider_bw:@bohio.icu · 4 days ago

We need ~~a Pi-hole for cars~~ to demand proper privacy regulation from our governments.

ContactClosure@lemmus.org · 3 days ago

Man capitalism fucking rules so fucking hard bro I’m so happy all these fucking faceless ad agencies can make money while I break my back to avoid starvation. Fuck.

Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.

Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.

Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports