The amount of information tracked and stored by modern cars is enormous – and creates privacy concerns.
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The amount of information tracked and stored by modern cars is enormous – and creates privacy concerns.
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This is why I never link my phone to a rental car.
i bought my wife a car last month. had to sign a forest of paperwork. noted that three day free return was waived. how does the average guy remove the chips or programming inside my new car? All this programming in secret and malicious FTC CODES – WHY PUBLIC HAS NO SAY? With all this advanced technology why can a chase lasting hours, very dangerous to public at large, do police not shut down vehicles right in front of them??? New cars should come with cameras front and back, side views too. The owners/users should have the ability to hook up a laptop to the car and see what error codes mean!
Man, I remember when the most "personal information" you'd get in a used car would be a self-ripped CD or a cassette left in the tape deck by the previous owner. The only thing you had to worry about was how a stranger was going to laugh at your embarrassing mix tape.
I wonder if there's a device made to erase the data at the end of the day? If there isn't there should be. Either that or start restoring 70's era cars and drive those.
Why in the world are cars storing this data? I can only think of one reason.
So, after your crime, disconnect the battery for a few hours. Or buy the interface and software to just reset everything. Better yet, don't kill someone and steal his truck.
This is why I get the lowest optioned car. I have a GPS, I dont need the car keeping track of me.
Good story. I give you the example of the fancy office all-in-one printer scanner fax email "space stations." They have hard disks and full computers therein. They are typically leased and at the end of the lease, the old gets rolled (or hauled, some of them are huge) out, new one comes in. What happens to the hard disk and data??? Same problem. We found one one time – from a law office. Hard disk had all manner of Personally Identifiable Data (PID). We wiped the drive. Another case may not have been so lucky.
Insurance companies have been tracking drivers for years . So called plug in device for mileage verification. Very sinister
This reminds me of the movie Enemy of the State. People trade privacy for convenience.