A Choice investigation has found most of Australia's popular car brands collect and share "driver data", ranging from braking patterns to video footage and voice recognition information.
As long as it’s not literally digitally run on one wire, and if you cut it, you have no infotainment system. Or, in some cases, no way to start your car.
Or it’s not a rental. Or your friend’s car. Or a taxi.
Sounds like a vehicle I wouldn’t buy. That’s the ultimate control - the consumer demands privacy and buys the vehicle that provides it
Yeah… Doesn’t really work like that in reality. Look at TVs.
Mine isn’t hooked to the Internet. Works for me.
No car for you then, since all of them do it. Can’t go to work? Too bad.
Just remember, voting with your wallet works. /s
Wirecutters do wonders for privacy.
As long as it’s not literally digitally run on one wire, and if you cut it, you have no infotainment system. Or, in some cases, no way to start your car.
Or it’s not a rental. Or your friend’s car. Or a taxi.
This needs to be regulated away.
good luck not owning a vehicle after literally all of them become enshittified garbage.