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Cars that won't spy on you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was considering buying a Chevy Bolt lately to use as my daily commuter but found out it collects a lot of data and phones it back. It's hard to do research on what kind of EV I could buy that doesn't collect your location data so I'm hoping someone here might have some good suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No such animal exists. They’re all rolling data collection machines.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

I drive a bolt. To somewhat minimize the GM evil, I don’t have the GM app installed and I didn’t give the Bluetooth connection access to anything but Apple CarPlay. Of course if you’re a real privacy purist, you don’t have a smartphone and don’t use Bluetooth anyway.

If you want a car with privacy, you’ll have to buy an old car without a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you remove their cellular mouths, they won't be able to scream.