From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs.

    • scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      No can can transmit data without an antenna. I disconnect mine when I get a new car and just don’t install their app on my phone.

      Some cars have a “telemetry” fuse, but I’ve never trusted that. They don’t explicitly say which part of the car does the spying and the reporting.

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        5 hours ago

        What antenna? The FM am antenna? There are probably multiple others hidden that are tiny (think mobile phones) if they want to so it without Our knowledge.