After the recent article about car privacy that Mozilla put out, I want to ensure my cars have no internet connection. Is there a good website to find any privacy issues for each car and how to disable them?
I don’t want to post my make and model here.
Not necessarily since it’s used for calls if your phone’s hooked up.
Hooking your phone up to your car is one of the worse things you can possibly do privacy-wise. If you’re going to do that, you can save yourself the trouble and keep the car’s internet, GPS, microphone and camera turned on.
It’s a sliding scale not an all for nothing. Privacy varies from carrier, smartphone platform, blah blah. I rather keep it from an auto manufacturer given their poor technology practices, inclination to give it to insurance companies, etc.
And after all, you can leave your phone at home or buy multiple, but not necessarily a car.
And for something a little more direct, Kia or a given make hypothetically wont be able to root through my phone’s location data to try to deny a warranty claim or if it makes it just a little more difficult I’m okay with that. #spite
A similar note is not signing up for insurance tracking of your vehicle. Just because you own and plug in a phone doesn’t mean you might as well install an insurance gadget and let them increase your premiums based on “unsafe driving” (such as braking a little to hard at a yellow light instead of just cruising smoothly through a red, or maybe full throttle application)
It is all or nothing in this case. You disconnect your car antenna just so you can connect it to a second antenna in your phone. You do end up getting nothing.