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.

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.zoneEnglish
    2·
    4 days 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.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      A cellphone doesn’t have a visible antenna, yet it transmits. I’m only saying this because I dont know about cars… are you removing the radio receiver antenna, or is there a cell phone antenna hidden in the car somewhere that can also be removed?

    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      4 days 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.