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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52944835

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much more. The legality of this […]

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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I used to drive it on the beach in VA it was a blast. I was driving across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel during hurricane Andrew and my friends in the back had to hold on to the top to keep it from blowing off. Fun times.