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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota.

that is so fucking insidious

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But one can also disable bluetooth tethering?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you use the phone to only allow Bluetooth media but nothing else?

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least on my pixel, I've got a setting to enable or disable sharing phones internet to bluetooth connections.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't seem to have this on my S23

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Does iOS still not ask fully what the user wants to use the Bluetooth connection for? As bad as Android is I can't imagine it doing something like that without asking.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Data will find a way.