autotldr@lemmings.world
on 06 Sep 2023 12:40
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
Cars scored worst for privacy among more than a dozen product categories – including fitness trackers, reproductive-health apps, smart speakers and other connected home appliances – that Mozilla has studied since 2017.
The absence of such a law lets connected devices and smartphones amass data for tailored ad targeting and other marketing – while also raising the odds of massive information theft through cybersecurity breaches.
Japan-based Nissan astounded researchers with the level of honesty and detailed breakdowns of data collection its privacy notice provides, a stark contrast with Big Tech companies such as Facebook or Google.
Further, Nissan says it can share “inferences” drawn from the data to create profiles “reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.”
If an owner opts out of data collection, Tesla’s privacy notice says the company may not be able to notify drivers “in real time” of issues that could result in “reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.”
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autotldr@lemmings.world
on 06 Sep 2023 12:40
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
Cars scored worst for privacy among more than a dozen product categories – including fitness trackers, reproductive-health apps, smart speakers and other connected home appliances – that Mozilla has studied since 2017.
The absence of such a law lets connected devices and smartphones amass data for tailored ad targeting and other marketing – while also raising the odds of massive information theft through cybersecurity breaches.
Japan-based Nissan astounded researchers with the level of honesty and detailed breakdowns of data collection its privacy notice provides, a stark contrast with Big Tech companies such as Facebook or Google.
Further, Nissan says it can share “inferences” drawn from the data to create profiles “reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.”
If an owner opts out of data collection, Tesla’s privacy notice says the company may not be able to notify drivers “in real time” of issues that could result in “reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.”
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 12:49
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This has been one of the major reasons I have no desire to buy a new car. I do not want a $30k IoT device that spies on me. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the norm now.
If/when I am forced to buy another, I’ll be looking hard into which ones are the easiest to rip the modem out of. Can’t be an IoT spying device without the internet.
I wonder what your insurance company would say about that.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 17:01
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People modify their cars all the time and my insurance company has no business tracking everything I do either.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 22:12
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Fuck that insurance company. When mine shipped a couple of OBD-II connection boxes for us to install for our auto insurance, I sent them back. They told me I wouldn’t get their special discount if I didn’t install the trackers in our 2 vehicles. I said I’m not installing your tracker boxes regardless. I continue to have car insurance, and those alleged discounts didn’t really amount to much.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
on 06 Sep 2023 12:59
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Its sad. I LOVE the concept of smart devices, the fact that you can do things so much more conveniently with little interaction. They can absolutely be done without being privacy nightmares, but apparently companies are not interested in that.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 06 Sep 2023 13:02
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And apparently neither are consumers
iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee
on 06 Sep 2023 13:23
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Vote with ya moolahhh
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
on 06 Sep 2023 13:26
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I don't care about my data. I have nothing to hide. Haha they can have my data if they want.
Literally everyone i know
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 13:46
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You’re missing the larger point. You dont have to have anything to hide for it to be an issue. They can now blackmail you for things they know about you, track you, use targeted advertising, listen in on your conversations. Hell, if there was a need to make you look guilty of a crime, with all the data on you, it wouldn’t be that difficult to do.
Doesn’t even get into the issues of fighting back against oppressive government, which isnmuch more difficult to do if they’re constantly spying on you.
But, you’re right, nothing to hide, so it’s not a big deal I guess.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 14:00
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Blackmail: This is a case where “I have nothing to hide” actually makes a big difference. Unless you are particularly well off and have significant skeletons, you just aren’t important enough to even try to blackmail. And if you ARE important enough to blackmail? Slim jim and a recorder in the pocket on the back of your seat.
Track you: You also have a phone. And more and more traffic lights and street corners have cameras on them
Targeted advertising: This is already happening in every facet of life. Also, truth be told, if I have to see ads I would prefer they be for things I care about
Listen in on your conversations: See “Blackmail”.
Frame you for a crime: Again, do you matter enough to target?
Fighting back against the government: Again, the vast majority of global north countries are becoming, or have already become, surveillance states. Not having a camera in your car doesn’t matter much if they have a camera on every street you ever drive down
I am a strong advocate for privacy, when it matters. Because most people base their knowledge off of vague recollections of Sandy Bullock’s movie or an episode of Futurama. And while it is good to be wary, it is also good to actually understand what you can and can’t do. Focus your energy on the things that matter. And, more importantly, understand that the moment you “fight back against the government” you need to change just about every aspect of your life. Like, there is a reason good journalists learn to have separate devices that are never powered on anywhere near their personal devices.
tim-clark@kbin.social
on 06 Sep 2023 14:25
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Finally a coherent comment on privacy!!!
demlet@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 15:52
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Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they’ll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.
HidingCat@kbin.social
on 06 Sep 2023 16:33
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This place (the fediverse) is a circle-jerk of FOSS and paranoid privacy nuts: This comment has been a sane reference point.
I feel like one of the issues is that there's just no good regulations on data. I don't mind the ideals behind some of the things that are happening (better ads for Internet tracking, better designs from data derived from the telemetry in cars), but much of this doesn't have the same kind of regulation compared to say, medical data, which makes trusting these companies with the data very hard.
Demuniac@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 22:25
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Just you wait until insurance companies start charging you extra because you go to McDonalds once a month, or because you drive 5 miles over the speed limit sometimes. Or your ex wants revenge and pays someone on the dark web to get dirt on you so you lose custody of your kid. So much stuff can go wrong, and we shouldn’t take it lightly.
If you think you have nothing to hide, you’re not using your imagination enough.
Then they act all butthurt when they get debt collectors harassing them on social media, or repos using location data to repo a car with missed payments, lol. All the J6 people are a great example of people fucking around with tech and committing crimes, then finding out belatedly :)
There’s lots of good, non-crime reasons why you might wanna protect your personal data, so you don’t get your identity stolen, your wife thrown in jail for an accidental pregnancy, or being any flavor of queer in a regressive state.
gnutrino@programming.dev
on 06 Sep 2023 14:31
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In the case of cars there isn’t really an alternative. The study the article cites looked at a bunch of different manufacturers and found the all sucked for privacy.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
on 06 Sep 2023 14:32
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Same. I’ve been slowly adding more and more smart devices to my Home Assistant instance and seeing it all interact is super neat. That said, the search for products that work 100% local and don’t depend on the cloud is a total pain, outside of some products using the Zigbee standard and such.
GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 19:26
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Zigbee and z-wave is the way to go, yeah. They work completely local and disconnected from the internet (in fact, they cannot directly connect to the internet).
BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one
on 06 Sep 2023 13:09
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slaps the hood of my 03 Acura shitbox type S
Yep, she’s a keeper.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 13:43
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Yeah I plan to drive my Corolla shitbox into the ground. The only problem with my plan is that the earth will only be around for a few hundred million years. Maybe a few billion? And (as long as you do the maintenance on time) Corollas will last until the heat death of the universe.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works
on 06 Sep 2023 13:29
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Can’t really go into depth, but I worked for a major automaker, privacy is a joke for newer cars even if you don’t pay for the Internet plans.
pyr0ball@reddthat.com
on 06 Sep 2023 16:02
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Is there anything a mildly competent electronics enthusiast could do to disable any outbound data?
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works
on 06 Sep 2023 16:35
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Unfortunately not for the company I worked for, all I will say is it was one of the top 5 automakers in the world.
I assume the others were also doing similar things in their cars.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 22:12
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I unplugged the cellular modem in mine. But it was made last decade, so they probably make those harder to find now.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works
on 06 Sep 2023 22:16
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As far as I’m aware, newer cars have them embedded in the head unit.
pyr0ball@reddthat.com
on 06 Sep 2023 23:43
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Ok so, replacing the head unit might work?
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works
on 07 Sep 2023 01:42
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Hard to say if it’s the same for most of the major auto makers, but from what I had been told by the head unit team, mostly everything for connected services was run through the head unit.
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 13:50
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I post this a second time because this post is more active. What can we do to stop the transfer of data? Can we disconnect the antenna/modem that connects the cars to the Internet?
lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com
on 06 Sep 2023 14:10
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Dont buy the car.
gnutrino@programming.dev
on 06 Sep 2023 14:28
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Thanks for the advice, I’ll just walk 26 miles to work each day I guess…
phoenixz@lemmy.ca
on 06 Sep 2023 15:33
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You can take public transportation. Oh wait, that requires governments to actually supply cities with useful and we’ll organized public transportation and since you’re probably in the US (the only country left that still uses the useless “miles” metric) and the US government has been bought up by (amongst others)car companies, there isn’t any meaningful pyblxi transportation left.
I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.
missveeronica@lemmynsfw.com
on 06 Sep 2023 16:24
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Fucking Europeans. They have no problem telling us hos shitty we are. But if we comment once on something that happens in their country, we get the typical “don’t comment on our country, because you don’t live there”.
demlet@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 17:03
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What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?
Interestingly enough there have already been attempts to shift to metric since at least the 70’s but it’s mostly been pushed back by conservatives.
People are not really pissed about it but more annoyed because there are loads of loudmouth Americans out there screaming how their country is “NUMBER ONE BABY!” and whenever I have to write something with units, I always have to add conversions for Americans because they Wong understand what the entire rest of the world does,which is frankly annoying too.
Hmm, you’re kind of sounding a little pissed though…
I’ve been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we’re number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you’re hanging out that you’re hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it’s a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don’t. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.
missveeronica@lemmynsfw.com
on 06 Sep 2023 21:18
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The previous poster is using projection as a defense. That means he’s out of arguments.
That would actually be the entire rest of the world. Also the scientific part of the US, as everyone got the memo on that the metric system is just so much better.
Sorry for poking at it but it’s tiresome that I continuously need to add conversions to weird units for Americans because if I don’t I get flushed with messages if I can please use “real units” or “freedom units”. Stop using a badly designed 300 year old system and join the rest of the world already. Even your scientists and engineers already do so, its just that the rest of your citizens don’t want to hop on for some reason.
And hey, you’re free to criticize Europe if you want, there is more than enough legit criticism to be had. It’s just that Europe doesn’t have the level of issues that the US has and at least Europe isn’t screaming around that they’re the best. Europe generally knows that it’s flawed but it’s trying to get better. The US is rolling off a cliff whilst screaming they’re number one. Eh, okay then!
Wookie@artemis.camp
on 06 Sep 2023 15:37
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They sell other cars you know?
guyrocket@kbin.social
on 06 Sep 2023 15:41
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Great.
Which ones will not spy on me?
deus@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 16:17
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Cars made in the 20th century are probably safe.
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 06 Sep 2023 16:19
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Go for a car from the 19th century just to be sure. They might miss a few features, such as differential, but if you’re worried about your privacy it’ll be worth it!
/j obviously.
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 18:07
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Safe from a privacy perspective. Otherwise they’re very unsafe by modern standards. Minimal airbags. Often no ABS. What ABS that is there is less sophisticated than modern systems. Worse structures for crash protection. No stability control. No traction control.
Plus they’re just old. Last year, I spent more on my 20 year old car than I did on my 2 year old car, that includes loan payments on the new car, fuel, tires, insurance, and maintenance.
Get something from this century at least.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 07 Sep 2023 01:12
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Twenty years old is this century, twenty years ago is 2003.
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
on 07 Sep 2023 01:46
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To be specific my car is actually 23 years old. To be really pedantic, it was manufactured in 1999.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 07 Sep 2023 01:50
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I was being a smartass, but im in roughly the same boat mines 22 years old. Also I think yours would be 24 years old unless it was built late in the year.
Wookie@artemis.camp
on 06 Sep 2023 16:55
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I guess you’ll have to do your research on that but you saying there is not one car for you is just wrong
Sensitive personal information, including driver’s license number, national or state identification number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information.
Nightwind@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 19:50
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Wtf. Genetic information. So they can take your DNA after bringing your car in for service and sell it?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 22:18
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You joke, but I could see some bean counting fuck being all over that business idea
Nightwind@lemmy.world
on 07 Sep 2023 07:04
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I was not joking at all - this is exactly what their legal stance is. I agree someone at Nissan is very likely thinking about how to make money with this.
PoorlyWrittenPapyrus@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 21:35
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sexual activity
What the fuck?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
on 06 Sep 2023 22:35
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YourBrainOnScience@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 21:36
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Not sure why Nissan needs my sexual activity data but I can maliciously comply and make them regret asking for it.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 21:59
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Keep sending images of goatse. But seriously speaking, it’s probably not humans that are collating and sifting the data. It’s all being fed to an algorithm.
Wahots@pawb.social
on 07 Sep 2023 01:04
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All the more reason to poison the data. Make them think everyone has a breadfucking kink and that they spend their Friday nights getting anally inserted baby carrots beaten back out of them by pimp bodyguards for $1,000.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world
on 07 Sep 2023 04:10
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Humans have access to the databases. Now another human can go to the nissan’sheadquarters of their countries, and request by the law of this country, that nissan provides the name of every people who had gay sex in their nissans.
Then they can arrest them and execute them.
That’s the issue with collected datas. You ignore when some totilarist government will access those.
itsJoelle@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 18:33
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Holy god. I’m not letting go of my '09 carolla and ebike. What the fuck.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
on 06 Sep 2023 19:43
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One of the reasons I got a motorcycle instead.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world
on 06 Sep 2023 21:58
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When Tesla came about ,I said privacy in cars is going to be a problem in the the future if people keep buying them and nobody protests. Well, we are now in that future. Crotch rockets may be our salvation.
So many health insurance companies would be going public with fat IPOs. Nothing like motorcycles to make the line go sky-high, lol.
My mom worked in the ER back in the day. Any patients dying of organ failure without a donor just had to make it to the weekend to live (seriously, not joking). People would dust off their cycles for the weekend and then donate and save lives.
traveler@lemdro.id
on 06 Sep 2023 20:15
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In fairness most of them have really shit software…
Nissan also said it collected information on “sexual activity.” It didn’t explain how.
Nissan doesn’t provide a detailed explanation of how the data is collected, but they say that the source they collect the data is “Direct contact with users and Nissan employees,” Whatever that means.
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 06 Sep 2023 23:50
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If you suck your salesman off to get a better deal, daddy Nissan knows 😏
Intralexical@lemmy.world
on 07 Sep 2023 01:01
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Nissan also said it collected information on “sexual activity.” It didn’t explain how.
Nissan doesn’t provide a detailed explanation of how the data is collected, but they say that the source they collect the data is “Direct contact with users and Nissan employees,” Whatever that means.
Based on this information, I can only infer that the Nissan sales handbook has a section on using seduction for particularly difficult and/or hot potential customers.
…I used to work at a pizza shop. Oh, so that’s why we got so many orders from the local Nissan dealership!
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
Cars scored worst for privacy among more than a dozen product categories – including fitness trackers, reproductive-health apps, smart speakers and other connected home appliances – that Mozilla has studied since 2017.
The absence of such a law lets connected devices and smartphones amass data for tailored ad targeting and other marketing – while also raising the odds of massive information theft through cybersecurity breaches.
Japan-based Nissan astounded researchers with the level of honesty and detailed breakdowns of data collection its privacy notice provides, a stark contrast with Big Tech companies such as Facebook or Google.
Further, Nissan says it can share “inferences” drawn from the data to create profiles “reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.”
If an owner opts out of data collection, Tesla’s privacy notice says the company may not be able to notify drivers “in real time” of issues that could result in “reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.”
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
Cars scored worst for privacy among more than a dozen product categories – including fitness trackers, reproductive-health apps, smart speakers and other connected home appliances – that Mozilla has studied since 2017.
The absence of such a law lets connected devices and smartphones amass data for tailored ad targeting and other marketing – while also raising the odds of massive information theft through cybersecurity breaches.
Japan-based Nissan astounded researchers with the level of honesty and detailed breakdowns of data collection its privacy notice provides, a stark contrast with Big Tech companies such as Facebook or Google.
Further, Nissan says it can share “inferences” drawn from the data to create profiles “reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.”
If an owner opts out of data collection, Tesla’s privacy notice says the company may not be able to notify drivers “in real time” of issues that could result in “reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.”
The original article contains 874 words, the summary contains 206 words. Saved 76%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
This has been one of the major reasons I have no desire to buy a new car. I do not want a $30k IoT device that spies on me. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the norm now.
If/when I am forced to buy another, I’ll be looking hard into which ones are the easiest to rip the modem out of. Can’t be an IoT spying device without the internet.
I’m looking into restomods myself. No need to buy a new car and rip it up.
I wonder what your insurance company would say about that.
People modify their cars all the time and my insurance company has no business tracking everything I do either.
Fuck that insurance company. When mine shipped a couple of OBD-II connection boxes for us to install for our auto insurance, I sent them back. They told me I wouldn’t get their special discount if I didn’t install the trackers in our 2 vehicles. I said I’m not installing your tracker boxes regardless. I continue to have car insurance, and those alleged discounts didn’t really amount to much.
Its sad. I LOVE the concept of smart devices, the fact that you can do things so much more conveniently with little interaction. They can absolutely be done without being privacy nightmares, but apparently companies are not interested in that.
And apparently neither are consumers
Vote with ya moolahhh
I don't care about my data. I have nothing to hide. Haha they can have my data if they want.
Literally everyone i know
You’re missing the larger point. You dont have to have anything to hide for it to be an issue. They can now blackmail you for things they know about you, track you, use targeted advertising, listen in on your conversations. Hell, if there was a need to make you look guilty of a crime, with all the data on you, it wouldn’t be that difficult to do.
Doesn’t even get into the issues of fighting back against oppressive government, which isnmuch more difficult to do if they’re constantly spying on you.
But, you’re right, nothing to hide, so it’s not a big deal I guess.
I am a strong advocate for privacy, when it matters. Because most people base their knowledge off of vague recollections of Sandy Bullock’s movie or an episode of Futurama. And while it is good to be wary, it is also good to actually understand what you can and can’t do. Focus your energy on the things that matter. And, more importantly, understand that the moment you “fight back against the government” you need to change just about every aspect of your life. Like, there is a reason good journalists learn to have separate devices that are never powered on anywhere near their personal devices.
Finally a coherent comment on privacy!!!
Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they’ll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.
This place (the fediverse) is a circle-jerk of FOSS and paranoid privacy nuts: This comment has been a sane reference point.
I feel like one of the issues is that there's just no good regulations on data. I don't mind the ideals behind some of the things that are happening (better ads for Internet tracking, better designs from data derived from the telemetry in cars), but much of this doesn't have the same kind of regulation compared to say, medical data, which makes trusting these companies with the data very hard.
Just you wait until insurance companies start charging you extra because you go to McDonalds once a month, or because you drive 5 miles over the speed limit sometimes. Or your ex wants revenge and pays someone on the dark web to get dirt on you so you lose custody of your kid. So much stuff can go wrong, and we shouldn’t take it lightly.
If you think you have nothing to hide, you’re not using your imagination enough.
I think the post you replied to was sarcasm.
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Looks like that was someone else. Ooh, can’t escape the sarcasm police…
Then they act all butthurt when they get debt collectors harassing them on social media, or repos using location data to repo a car with missed payments, lol. All the J6 people are a great example of people fucking around with tech and committing crimes, then finding out belatedly :)
There’s lots of good, non-crime reasons why you might wanna protect your personal data, so you don’t get your identity stolen, your wife thrown in jail for an accidental pregnancy, or being any flavor of queer in a regressive state.
In the case of cars there isn’t really an alternative. The study the article cites looked at a bunch of different manufacturers and found the all sucked for privacy.
Same. I’ve been slowly adding more and more smart devices to my Home Assistant instance and seeing it all interact is super neat. That said, the search for products that work 100% local and don’t depend on the cloud is a total pain, outside of some products using the Zigbee standard and such.
Zigbee and z-wave is the way to go, yeah. They work completely local and disconnected from the internet (in fact, they cannot directly connect to the internet).
slaps the hood of my 03 Acura shitbox type S
Yep, she’s a keeper.
Yeah I plan to drive my Corolla shitbox into the ground. The only problem with my plan is that the earth will only be around for a few hundred million years. Maybe a few billion? And (as long as you do the maintenance on time) Corollas will last until the heat death of the universe.
Can’t really go into depth, but I worked for a major automaker, privacy is a joke for newer cars even if you don’t pay for the Internet plans.
Is there anything a mildly competent electronics enthusiast could do to disable any outbound data?
Unfortunately not for the company I worked for, all I will say is it was one of the top 5 automakers in the world.
I assume the others were also doing similar things in their cars.
I unplugged the cellular modem in mine. But it was made last decade, so they probably make those harder to find now.
As far as I’m aware, newer cars have them embedded in the head unit.
Ok so, replacing the head unit might work?
Hard to say if it’s the same for most of the major auto makers, but from what I had been told by the head unit team, mostly everything for connected services was run through the head unit.
I post this a second time because this post is more active. What can we do to stop the transfer of data? Can we disconnect the antenna/modem that connects the cars to the Internet?
Dont buy the car.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll just walk 26 miles to work each day I guess…
You can take public transportation. Oh wait, that requires governments to actually supply cities with useful and we’ll organized public transportation and since you’re probably in the US (the only country left that still uses the useless “miles” metric) and the US government has been bought up by (amongst others)car companies, there isn’t any meaningful pyblxi transportation left.
I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.
Fucking Europeans. They have no problem telling us hos shitty we are. But if we comment once on something that happens in their country, we get the typical “don’t comment on our country, because you don’t live there”.
What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?
Interestingly enough there have already been attempts to shift to metric since at least the 70’s but it’s mostly been pushed back by conservatives.
People are not really pissed about it but more annoyed because there are loads of loudmouth Americans out there screaming how their country is “NUMBER ONE BABY!” and whenever I have to write something with units, I always have to add conversions for Americans because they Wong understand what the entire rest of the world does,which is frankly annoying too.
That’s why
Hmm, you’re kind of sounding a little pissed though…
I’ve been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we’re number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you’re hanging out that you’re hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it’s a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don’t. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.
The previous poster is using projection as a defense. That means he’s out of arguments.
That would actually be the entire rest of the world. Also the scientific part of the US, as everyone got the memo on that the metric system is just so much better.
Sorry for poking at it but it’s tiresome that I continuously need to add conversions to weird units for Americans because if I don’t I get flushed with messages if I can please use “real units” or “freedom units”. Stop using a badly designed 300 year old system and join the rest of the world already. Even your scientists and engineers already do so, its just that the rest of your citizens don’t want to hop on for some reason.
And hey, you’re free to criticize Europe if you want, there is more than enough legit criticism to be had. It’s just that Europe doesn’t have the level of issues that the US has and at least Europe isn’t screaming around that they’re the best. Europe generally knows that it’s flawed but it’s trying to get better. The US is rolling off a cliff whilst screaming they’re number one. Eh, okay then!
So are banana’s but we don’t use those either
How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.
13 years Redditor, on average 2 posts and 20 comments per day. I was a power user there until the purge
So maybe you were joking and I didn’t catch it?
They sell other cars you know?
Great.
Which ones will not spy on me?
Cars made in the 20th century are probably safe.
Go for a car from the 19th century just to be sure. They might miss a few features, such as differential, but if you’re worried about your privacy it’ll be worth it!
/j obviously.
Safe from a privacy perspective. Otherwise they’re very unsafe by modern standards. Minimal airbags. Often no ABS. What ABS that is there is less sophisticated than modern systems. Worse structures for crash protection. No stability control. No traction control.
Plus they’re just old. Last year, I spent more on my 20 year old car than I did on my 2 year old car, that includes loan payments on the new car, fuel, tires, insurance, and maintenance.
Get something from this century at least.
Twenty years old is this century, twenty years ago is 2003.
To be specific my car is actually 23 years old. To be really pedantic, it was manufactured in 1999.
I was being a smartass, but im in roughly the same boat mines 22 years old. Also I think yours would be 24 years old unless it was built late in the year.
I guess you’ll have to do your research on that but you saying there is not one car for you is just wrong
This article is literally about how they tested 25 brands and zero of them passed privacy review.
I will drive my 06xB till the wheels fall off
Get something made before 2017.
That would’ve been possible when consumers had a choice but now it’s too late.
I know my vehicle has a fuse to pull to disconnect the modem.
Be me
Siemens Charger
People using my wifi to get work done
Cool story, bro
Oh, look, somebody thought the tracks were a cool place to park
No parking zone will be enforced with extreme prejudice.
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Are dumb cars still manufactured? I don’t drive so I have no clue what the market’s like.
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This is why GM is looking to remove android auto and Apple CarPlay. No mediator between them and your data
Sure there is its called a screwdriver and it goes directly through the computer!
Lol no. They want to remove easy access to digital services so they can charge for their own.
Right. That too
I’m reposting this in every thread so anyone can see:
www.nissanusa.com/privacy.html
Wtf. Genetic information. So they can take your DNA after bringing your car in for service and sell it?
You joke, but I could see some bean counting fuck being all over that business idea
I was not joking at all - this is exactly what their legal stance is. I agree someone at Nissan is very likely thinking about how to make money with this.
What the fuck?
Yes, exactly
What how where and when
Not sure why Nissan needs my sexual activity data but I can maliciously comply and make them regret asking for it.
Keep sending images of goatse. But seriously speaking, it’s probably not humans that are collating and sifting the data. It’s all being fed to an algorithm.
All the more reason to poison the data. Make them think everyone has a breadfucking kink and that they spend their Friday nights getting anally inserted baby carrots beaten back out of them by pimp bodyguards for $1,000.
Humans have access to the databases. Now another human can go to the nissan’sheadquarters of their countries, and request by the law of this country, that nissan provides the name of every people who had gay sex in their nissans.
Then they can arrest them and execute them.
That’s the issue with collected datas. You ignore when some totilarist government will access those.
Holy god. I’m not letting go of my '09 carolla and ebike. What the fuck.
One of the reasons I got a motorcycle instead.
When Tesla came about ,I said privacy in cars is going to be a problem in the the future if people keep buying them and nobody protests. Well, we are now in that future. Crotch rockets may be our salvation.
So many health insurance companies would be going public with fat IPOs. Nothing like motorcycles to make the line go sky-high, lol.
My mom worked in the ER back in the day. Any patients dying of organ failure without a donor just had to make it to the weekend to live (seriously, not joking). People would dust off their cycles for the weekend and then donate and save lives.
In fairness most of them have really shit software…
Nissan doesn’t provide a detailed explanation of how the data is collected, but they say that the source they collect the data is “Direct contact with users and Nissan employees,” Whatever that means.
www.nissanusa.com/privacy.html
If you suck your salesman off to get a better deal, daddy Nissan knows 😏
Based on this information, I can only infer that the Nissan sales handbook has a section on using seduction for particularly difficult and/or hot potential customers.
…I used to work at a pizza shop. Oh, so that’s why we got so many orders from the local Nissan dealership!