Can this WiFi type stuff in your car be turned off?
I use a Verizon Hotspot feeding an Amazon Echo Dot with a usb battery to do mobile internet radio.
I’m sure Amazon, the CIA and NSA know everything about me...
Shirley, you jest.
Will never, ever buy a Government Motors, UAW built P.O.S.
Of course it can be turned off. Just not by you.
The average 2018 car has about 30 microprocessor controlled “electronic control units.” Some luxury cars may have as many as 100.
Have you found the “off” switch for these in your car?
You expect them to let you “opt in”?
Google reads all of your inbound Gmail as well as the emails you write AND the drafts you wrote and didn’t send. That data is cross-correlated a zillion different ways to everything you do on Google.
Just wait until the car data is purchased by Google and it’s munged with everything they already know about you.
If the service is “free”, you’re the product!
I’ll keep my old dumb cars that don’t snitch on me.
Government Motors is dead to me.
Yes..
I suspect this crap has been going on at a lower level with onstar..
Goverment motors.. Big Brother Motors..
On board wifi only works if you have it activated...for a price. After my three month trial offer ended I never subscribed. It’s just a waste of money. I have more data with my Verizon plan than I’ll ever likely use in a month. Plus, it’s through AT&T, which has horrible coverage.
Another set of reasons why I refuse to buy a new vehicles.
I drive a 1976 Chevy 1 ton dually truck with over 348,000 miles on the chassis, and a 1979 Buick station wagon with over 214,000 miles on it.
AM NOT buying anything from today’s fleet of offerings.
IF I have to replace either of those vehicles, I will go shopping in Hemmings Motor News !!!!!
You’re screwed. What your computer don’t tell them , your cell phone does. What your cell phone don’t tell them your car does. What your car don’t tell them the red light cameras tell them. What the red light cameras don’t tell them ,the drones flying overhead tell them. You are under surveillance every day, every minute.
Is it possible to buy a pickup truck with vinyl seats, vinyl mats and is not in constant communication with a mothership?
Of course not, but it can turn the car off. Next thing you know, you’ll have to agree to their Terms of Service to drive your car, and ‘contentious’ activities, like driving to conservative lectures or posting memes on the internet, will cause your driving privileges to be revoked. “Just build your own damn car,” they’ll say.
Since my smart phone upgraded, now without prompting on my part it offers me directions to my church on Sunday mornings. Apparently this is because it is tracking my patterns. Thanks, but I know how to get there. This is so creepy.
Better solution: buy a stripper trim that’s not equipped with it.