Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels. Here's Who's Listening

(khoury.northeastern.edu)

20 points | by rafaelc 35 minutes ago

6 comments

  • deepsun 13 minutes ago
    > As one notable exception, Honda improved its data collection practices to prevent sending precise geolocation to a third party associated with user tracking.

    I know what my next car will be.

  • steelframe 3 minutes ago
    Still driving my GR Corolla with the data communications module fuse pulled.
  • newspaper1 1 minute ago
    I don't trust any of my devices anymore (including/especially my car). At the very least I figure that they're spying on me. In the most extreme cases, such as Israel's terrorist pager attack, they may even kill you.

    I wonder if this is going to create a market for older tech/vehicles that were made prior to ease-of-malware integration? I imagine some sort of cyberpunk future where people are scouring landfills for old 16-bit video game console chips that haven't been backdoored.

  • iamronaldo 2 minutes ago
    Not to take away from the point but wow absolute ai slop of a website
  • prasadvara 32 minutes ago
    The ongoing theme of all these responses was shifting the blame to the consumer.

    As expected. I think consumers also need to push back on these practices, but the problem is, majority of consumers are tech savy but not privacy savy.

    • slowin 18 minutes ago
      I'd love to push back, I'm not sure what that looks like though. I can't even get an open source/open hardware phone that's decent, let alone a car.
      • ad_fontes 3 minutes ago
        You might want to check out Slate. It's about the closest thing to an open vehicle platform I can imagine.
  • theowaway 5 minutes ago
    sucks to be a merkin