Posted on 03/15/2024 8:49:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“My fear is that selling this information to insurance companies is just the tip of the iceberg. Connecting one’s car to the cloud enables a whole new level of surveillance by God knows whom. And in some cases, you have no idea it is happening.”
And lets not forget that cars also have microphones for voice controls and phones...
If you build it from a kit like our hero, there’s no chance a spy device will be built in. Not that it did him any good with cameras everywhere else too.
Be seeing you...
FWIW an array of sites and videos claim to instruct owners how to physically disconnect and unpower the monitoring devices.
Not spending any serious time on it, but bet it wouldn’t be hard to put together a microboard (Arduino or similar) to feed it spurious telemetry data, and it’s likely someone has.
Is that Patrick McGoohan?
Yes. It’s from the opening sequence of The Prisoner along with the “information” quotes after the picture.
I have a hunch that if you have a car with OnStar, the best way to go might be pulling the fuse for that or finding some other way of disconnecting it. If it’s an older vehicle & you have no practical use for OnStar (like paying for the subscription) you may as well disconnect it. The company that built it already knows enough about it, except maybe for frequency of breakdowns.
Even if you don’t pay the subscription the OnStar unit is still broadcasting sending location data to it home server.
Digital/cellular is not passive.
Mine isn’t. I don’t turn those things on. I never get behind the wheel without speeding, so I’m not signing up for anything that monitors my driving. As for the people who did sign up, frankly if they’re upset about this they’re MORONS. What did they think was going to happen? “Please collect more data on me. Wait how dare you sell it!” Straight up dumb.
You can turn it off so you don’t see it, and that includes location, but if you have Google it’s going to track you anyway.
If you are driving faster, you are spending less time on the trip.
Should be less $.
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