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Need Help Finding Article on Car Privacy

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 and can provide a link?

delirious_owl , (edited )
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My question is: which cars have toggle switches 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...

GolfNovemberUniform ,
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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)

delirious_owl ,
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What do you mean its illegal for me to modify my own car's sound system?!?

GolfNovemberUniform ,
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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)

sic_semper_tyrannis OP ,

I didn't realize they update their research. I just thought they produced the one a few months ago that swept the internet. I'll check it out again, thanks.

FarFarAway ,

I hate to admit I saw this on r/conspiracy. Maybe there's a link in there.

sic_semper_tyrannis OP ,

Nothing wrong with that. I'll give it a look, thanks

workerONE ,

But the phone's owner could have been a passenger. Seems unrealistic

sic_semper_tyrannis OP ,

Good point. I would like to understand it better if the data/info is out there

Vej ,

My friend was talking about this over the weekend. I really hope this is not true.

Rikj000 ,
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Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:

sic_semper_tyrannis OP ,

I didn't know about this opt out code. Pretty nifty. Thanks

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