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That‘ll happen when you don‘t have meaningful data protection laws.
My question is why, with their protection laws, Smart TVs and Smart Cars are still sold in the EU?
Do they do the same spying on the models/units produced for sale in EU? It’s not actually a necessary part of the operation of the device, so it makes sense they’d be able to sell them without it.
Can I invoke CCPA to get a report of and/or delete my data?
All European car manufacturers pull a crazy amount of telemetry data from your car.

Either via permanent 4G/5G link or during service intervals in the shop.

Source: I analyzed these data as an intern for one.

Another reason to use a car from 90's or 2000's.. Also they wont burn oil like a modern car + more durable and repairable metal parts.

https://youtu.be/Ft12aZffCEg?si=qP1J5k6RXAxmZChf

https://youtu.be/SeMZGICNSMg?si=-YLnt5Q477xpFbra

https://youtu.be/8Kp108x4tQA?si=j7JV-_Dpl5afP99F

I really wanted a modern car because of the fancy automation stuff, I thought.

But it never is economical or more environmental friendly.

Whatever I saved on my old car compared to a newer one will never be less than the theoretical fuel savings on a newer car. Repair costs will never be as much (assuming you buy a popular repair friendly car). And nothing new needs to be built for me either.

>Another reason to use a car from 90's or 2000's

Talking as an eastern european: unless you live in a sunshine place (~Mediterranean) most of the 90s car already eaten by the rust + the salt used for defrosting on roads in the winter.

Sure _everything can be fixed_ but then your car becomes a hobby and might not everyone has an attitude and time for that.

My wife's Ioniq 5 was hit on the bumper while it was parked. Took weeks for all parts to get to the dealer and cost thousands of dollars because sensors etc. if someone hit my 1981 Volvo 240 the same way I'm not even sure it would cause any noticable damage.
How can this be stopped, from a technical perspective? Can I wrap the comms in a Faraday cage?

Obviously it would be better to have this action be illegal. But with legal privacy protections eroding in the US and other countries, it seems prudent to have a better understanding of the systems involved in the immoral surveillance.

Vote with your dollars. I know one brand that has the most leading edge tech and does not sell my data so I bought from them. However they do use my anonymized data to train models for a future FSD capability but only because I opted in to that.
I want a car that doesn't collect the data, not one that gives a pinky promise not to sell still collected data.
Which brand? And what's to stop them from changing your opt in toggle on after an update as we've seen countless companies do time and time again?
Which brand is that if you don't mind me asking?
“FSD?” You aren’t talking about Tesla, are you? “Vote with your dollars?” So you voted for regulatory capture, election interference, erosion of free speech (due to concentration of media power), and you’re financially supporting an openly racist, openly fascist oligarch who’s let the mask completely slip? I can’t even mention the gesture he did on the inauguration stage, because the mods tend to delete any mention of that. Galaxy brain moment. /s

The fact that you even said that with a straight face. If you buy a Tesla in >2025 you’re morally bankrupt. Yeah… I’d rather my data get sold than support any Musk-led company.

Contrary to the HN bias, but a way to avoid this if you want to get a new car full of tech gadgets is to get one that runs on Android Automotive. The privacy policy is a normal tech company privacy policy. Other cars come with privacy notices that just say they can give your data to anybody.
1. Android Automotive is run by Google, so that entire argument goes out the window immediately, because Google

2. Car companies bypass CarPlay/Android Auto with their own head units with software that executes before the projection software does.

Android Auto and Android Automotive are not the same thing.
Sorry, but a lot of cars, even if they run Android Automotive, maintain a separate TCU/DCM with its own cellular connection that can collect vehicle information independently of Android Automotive.
Smart Car is the new Smart TV.
How is this not stealing?

I'm going to pirate shit until this is fixed.

I posted a flavor of this comment on an article a few months ago, but it's relevant here:

I have a seven year old Volkswagen, not financed. I'm security conscious and made sure to disable all the data collection I could find in the companion app before removing my account, turn off remote access services, dig through the infotainment to turn off what I could, etc.

Last year I requested a Carfax on it, and one of the fields in the request was current mileage. I entered an estimate like 75000 miles. On form submission, that field failed validation with red subtext along the lines of 'this is less than the last reported mileage of 75345, reported <5 or so days prior>'. Checking my odometer and looking at my past few days' trips, that was indeed accurate.

The car hadn't been to a shop or out of my possession in weeks, so I can only assume the telemetry was still dialing home and selling to third parties despite my best efforts to disable it.

Couldn't you put some sort of faraday cage around the antenna?
What did you do, or what are you going to do? That would piss me off until i found the antenna and broke it
My car is from 2017, so thankfully it's not.
In my GM car I have the wonderful opportunity to pull the OnStar fuse and disable all cellular connectivity. However, I am concerned the telematics information are stored in long term storage and if I have to reconnect the fuse, all my driving will be batch uploaded. I hope not!! And the GPS still works. Maybe I can find some dummy loads as well or the antennae.

It's still better than other modern cars though? I think.

Terms of use to even read the article:

> third-party partners process information about you and how you use our services, including clicks and screen recordings, using first and third-party cookies, pixels, and similar technologies

I notice that not one comment here, nor the article, notes that this doesn't happen with a Tesla.
I drive a restored 2002 Citroen C5.