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Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

How would your car even know your sexual activity?

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Per the article...

They can collect personal information from how you interact with your car, the connected services you use in your car, the car’s app (which provides a gateway to information on your phone), and can gather even more information about you from third party sources like Sirius XM or Google Maps.

In addition, my car uses text-to-speech to read texts to me and I can even reply to them with speech-to-text. Any data that passes from your phone through your car could easily be harvested. You should also assume that any data on your phone can be harvested by the car's app if you install it.

[-] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How does it know the information is medical or genetic, if it captures text messages?

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Any information they get is going to be examined for keywords at the very minimum. If, for example, you text your wife about test results from the doctor's office, they can add that to the profile they're making of you. If you get a text from a cardiologists office saying your results are in, they can infer you have heart troubles. Things like that.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I have no facts, but I assume via cameras which might record whatever you're doing in the car.

[-] books@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was real curious about that too. Seems like its just a disclaimer that ya might get hacked and have you car sex leaked on pornhub.

[-] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

by you parking four hours infront of a known brothel or by you shagging someone on the backseat of your char, clearly. /some sarcasm in there

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