Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data

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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data
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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data::Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called "privacy nightmare on wheels," according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation.

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Wonder if you disabled cellular on these cars, take away its ability to call home, if the car would still be usable, or would it just brick itself?

Varies widely, sometimes you can call in and opt-out, boom done. It will naturally take the cellular features like hotspot, app stuff with it. It will be very make/model specific. You can do it on Toyota's by pulling a fuse if calling don't work and you only lose the microphone.

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