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

I am sure this article has been shared before, however I wanted to have a look at this topic.
The articles short summary is this:

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

I am currently driving a 2014 Ford Fiesta which just has a radio with a CD player and Bluetooth. I do not need more than that in a car.

The reason I am looking at all is that that the Fiesta does not belong to me and the friend owning it will be moving out in a bit, so I kinda need another one.

There seems to be one brand that is not as bad as the other ones (but still bad): Renault; mozilla’s review…
Maybe I will have a look at their cars.

What do you guys think? Stick to older used cars and not use an EV or look at which of the manufacturers have the least bad privacy policy?

  • jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    1 day ago

    Ehhh that’s a bit of a blanket statement that applies to dealers: I promise you my indie guy who does my tires and inspections will not be plugging anything in. Everything else I will be doing anyways.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      14·
      1 day ago

      He would be a bad mechanic if he didn’t plug it in to get a readout of the computer on your car during routine maintenance

      He would be an exceptional mechanic if he made sure to only do this on an airgapped machine.

      • jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        9·
        1 day ago

        That’s simply not how it works. The only “computer” system that is required and widely used is still obd-II which has been around since 1996. Thats all the independent shops diagnose with whether the car is 1999 or rolled off the lot yesterday. Any other computer system on board is dealer specific and a specialised system NOT accessed during regular work. Quit spamming misinformation.

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          13·
          22 hours ago

          It’s not required. These surveillance systems and data profiteering are very optional.

          • natebluehooves@pawb.social
            8·
            20 hours ago

            this is just blind undirected cynicism. please show your work. I hate our surveillance state too, but if you misidentify the problem you will push away people who understand the situation from your cause.

              • natebluehooves@pawb.social
                3·
                14 hours ago

                3rd party mechanics aren’t plugging into anything but OBD II, and the kinds of systems you are talking about aren’t being checked by mechanics.