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.
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
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 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…
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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.
Finally a coherent comment on privacy!!!
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.
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.
Vote with ya moolahhh
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).
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?
I know my vehicle has a fuse to pull to disconnect the modem.
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.
I’m reposting this in every thread so anyone can see:
https://www.nissanusa.com/privacy.html
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sexual activity
What the fuck?
Yes, exactly
What how where and when
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
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.
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If you suck your salesman off to get a better deal, daddy Nissan knows 😏
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!
Are dumb cars still manufactured? I don’t drive so I have no clue what the market’s like.
Holy god. I’m not letting go of my '09 carolla and ebike. What the fuck.
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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.
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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