Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/dead-cars-tell-tales-by-storing-data-thats-never-wiped-625023
Researcher opens up TCU from scrapped car and finds sensitive info.
Well, that’s it, if I ever can afford a car, I will refuse to get anything new enough to have GPS or any sort of infotainment trash. I will be one of the last people driving gas after the entire would has switched to electric.
I found this startup working on a no-frills analog type vehicle. I hope they get it to market soon so my poor ass can afford a used one a decade from now when the privacy destroying car enshittification apocalypse reaches it’s apex.
That is the main electric vehicle I was looking at honestly
baggins@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
That’s a rather disturbing article.
But when you think about it, it should have been obvious.
All those vehicles driving around. Mapping, listening, watching. And then you plug your phone in!
It’s a privacy nightmare.