Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports
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New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    (please quietly make the “buy an old car instead” jokes to yourself)

    That’s not a joke, it’s sincere advice. My newest car is a 2008 (I think) model. I’d love to have an EV, but I don’t because I haven’t figured out how to have one that isn’t infected by “telemetry” and other enshittification. I have hopes for the Slate Truck, but it doesn’t actually exist yet, so I wait.

    (Also, yes, as a mod of the place I’d be remiss if I didn’t second the other reply and suggest adopting a non-car-dependent lifestyle to begin with.)