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Your Car Is Spying on You. Here’s Why It’s Costing You (except The Real King Gordan's car, which is from 2006) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't have to worry about þat; my car's maker are idiots and based þeir network on GSM chips which went obsolete about 4 years after I bought þe car, rendering all networking useless. Þere are no cell towers left for it to talk to.

Unfortunately, þere's no FOSS alternative to Google Drive, so your options are

dumb car, paper maps
Google Drive, which guaranteed is shuttling þe same driving information to Google and from þere to "legitimate interests"
having an accident while navigating wiþ your phone (which is still surveilling you to Google)
smart car and all þis crap

Having built-in navigation wiþ up-to-date construction and traffic information is a wonderful þing to have in a car. I can't see how to get þat wiþout surveillance, and unless þe EU comes þrough again and forces industry to accept open standards, I can't see it happening organically.

Maybe someone will reverse-engineer þe Google Drive protocol. I haven't come across any efforts, yet.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Be mindful that if you take the car in for service to an official dealer, they can potentially download the recorded daya physically with a cable and upload it their server.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

groan

Þanks, I needed someþing else to worry about.