It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
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All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
  • zeekaran@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    How do they collect any data? Beyond the locations the car drives to.

    From the article:

    from your medical information, your genetic information, to your “sex life”

    But how? I can’t fathom it.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      22·
      10 months ago

      From metadata alone, you could identify somebody at a strip club on Friday, a church on Sunday, and an STD clinic on Tuesday

    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
      31·
      10 months ago

      Bear in mind many models also have voice recognition, and the Bluetooth can potentially pick up the MAC on every phone in the car.