I'm looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone's kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone's data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.
I've tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?
Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:
- https://privacy4cars.com/
- https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/
- https://optoutcode.com/
- https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
I didn't know about this opt out code. Pretty nifty. Thanks
Mozilla did a research on it recently. And yes the infotainment system does send data to the insurance company in some countries. Do not use it unless you highly modify it to be privacy-respecting (which is illegal but whatever cuz privacy is more important)
What do you mean its illegal for me to modify my own car's sound system?!?
Absolutely can be. They have a SIM card or an alternative of it. It's registered and tampering with it can lead to stuff up to real jail time (IMEI change)
My question is: which cars have kill sketches built-in, or have a community of hackers that have published guides on how to turn off the car's internet access, microphones, cameras, and other unnecessary sensors...
I hate to admit I saw this on r/conspiracy. Maybe there's a link in there.
