Posted on 09/27/2024 6:11:03 AM PDT by Salman
Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and not a care in the world… except all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.
Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels" for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants' privacy hasn’t really caught up. While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines. Machines that, because of all those brag-worthy bells and whistles, have an unmatched power to watch, listen, and collect information about what you do and where you go in your car.
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label -- making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.
Why are cars we researched so bad at privacy? And how did they fall so far below our standards? Let us count the ways!
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If I could, I’d happily take a late 80’s early 90’s F-150 4x4 with a five liter, manual windows, tow package, and AC.
In the meantime, if you have to buy new, but an inexpensive car, base trim.
Less to spy on you.
...buy an...
I actually have to stop in a rest area to reboot my F-150 [I think it has M$ software...] whilst driving on a long trip to keep the “CarPlay” navigation & internet radio totally functional.
It’s a PITA.
Actually, phones and computers are the #1 invaders of privacy. Then security cameras, license plate reading cameras, facial recognition.
The underlying problem is that everything is remembered and made available to the big guys for getting you in trouble.
They can have my decades-old F350DRW when they pry my cold, dead hands off the steering wheel.
In the 80’s Ford was reluctant to say the least to put Intel products in their cars to get emissions down and performance up.
I have the F-350 diesel version of that. I agree
Agreed.
If you have your cell phone on while driving and are using any features, you are being tracked.
Connected cars have the ability to be deactivated remotely along with tracking.
The collection of data in all aspects of our lives can’t be stopped. The game has been rigged for a long time. This has nothing to do with advertising. “Advertising” is a smokescreen, and at this point a pretty sad one.
The thousands of satellites all around us in the skies will eventually number in the tens of thousands, if they don’t already. Some provide an internet access. But the majority exist as components of the 24/7 surveillance umbrella - built to observe, monitor and track human interactions.
Parking with my High School sweetie was much simpler in the old days.
Do you mean using the phine function available in most cars....or...just having your cell phone with you and on?
If you want to know just how much data is recorded by your phone, watch the trial of Alex Murdaugh (the lawyer convicted of murdering his wife and son in South Carolina). While Alex was on the stand, the prosecution showed all kinds of phone evidence. Your phone knows (and records) when the phone is locked, unlocked, what app(s) you use, continuous location data (to within ~3 feet)... And that is only a small portion of the data it records, collects, and retains. And pretty much everything is accessible to law enforcement.
If you have a smart phone, you have exactly zero privacy.
Also, just like Mozilla dweebs to whing on about something. Hey! Wanna do something worthwhile instead of constantly making Firefox worse and worse? How about publishing some hacks we can use to turn off these features?
“If you have a smart phone, you have exactly zero privacy.”
In my case, maybe I’m safe because I lead a simple life.
I don’t post things on this site or any other internet site such as emails or texts that I think could come back to bite me.
I don’t identify myself on this site, but certainly big brother could find out.
I come to this site mainly to learn, not to preach.
Police are lazy. If a private company will collect and store information for them and then do the work to look it up and put it in a report so much the better. That is why we have communism. That is why we now have secret police down to the city level.
I am never giving up my old truck but that won’t do much since there are ALPR all over the place now. Toll road, recorded. City street, recorded. Private neighborhood, recorded. Stored, cataloged for future use against you along with whatever WIFI signals that you were broadcasting as you passed the automated checkpoint. It is modern day communist ‘show me your papers’ but without the pesky human interaction.
Trust me on this one; We are all on a big list complete with individual files that are being compiled from every source possible. All ‘legal’ since private companies are doing the work.
“We are all on a big list complete with individual files ...”
Guess the “net” in internet is truer than ever: it’s like a fishnet that has caught us all.
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