Any device in your house that has a network connection and requires an online account is spying on you, full stop. The question is how much.
Aluminum is hard on the ass and Carbon makes those cracking noises that cost 5K each time you hear one. Steel is the metal to beat for service life.
The last owner was a pro racer who had it custom built then repainted to make it lighter XD
Love my 26" XC. Easy to store, easy to transport, easy to ride!
First example I could find.
The computer network in your car touches everything, engine control, powertrain, body control, SRS, emtertainment system, stc. If the dealer thinks they can get away with denying a claim because you "damaged" the vehicle by removing the cellular antenna you know they will. And it's not like you can just pop it back on before you bring it in, new cars are streaming data 24/7 into the manufacture's network, and is visible to the dealer, whether you pay for car control the app or not.
For some less click-bait-y information, check out any of the "Car Hacking Village" videos from the past 5 DefCons. They go into great detail about what new vehicles actually do.
For example there was an extended period of time where any asshole could make themselves into an admin and get, and change, information on ANY car sold by a particular manufacture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuS0rvqc8c
It will also void any warantee or service agreement you have with the dealer.
To be 100% un-trackable you need to put your phone in airplane mode or turn it off entirely.
You can track phones by their bluetooth mac even if you dont connect to anything.
My FPV goggles have no internal battery, they need to be run off a 2s-8s LiPo or 5v from a USB port. This lets me use a reasonably safe power supply instead of strapping a raw lipo to my body.
You've never requested your data from google. I did a while ago and found a dozen recordings of my voice from my pocket despite having the voice assistant turned off.
No, because I run GrapheneOS.
Warning there are some tall-ass images in this post.
A few years ago I got mad enough at the temperature gradient in my town house that I designed and build a bunch of ESP8266 sensors to feed data into an RRD so that I could have some pretty graphs to be angry about as well. (As of this week I have also started logging stats from my UPS and server.) Using the minimum of HTML and CSS I threw those graphs, a map of the previous day's incoming network traffic, and some convenient links onto a homepage that I use on all of my devices. At a glance this tells me if the furnace/AC is working, if my server is having a fit for unknown reasons, and if the local power grid is playing it fast and loose with the voltage and frequency (which I suspect they do).
Clicking the temperature/humidity data leads to a long term data page covering 2 years of data in varying resolution. The gap last fall was when the garage sensor failed and I was waiting for Aliexpress.
There are also long term trends for the server load and UPS but they have only been logging for a few days so there is not much to look at.
Clicking the map on the home page leads to a text file containing a summary of all incoming traffic to apache and ssh. The ssh server is on a high port number and doesn't see much traffic but occasionally a persistent bot will find it.
Everything but my landing page (this animation in p5.js https://old.reddit.com/r/cellular_automata/comments/1djwjbu/waves_processingorg/ with the text "Hey this isn't where I parked my car" overlayed) is behind basic auth or better and I have push notifications set up for every ssh login (even my own), in 5 years I have never had a successful login from an attacker, this is not an invitation, have mercy.
All the data is gathered with python scripts and stored in RoundRobinDatabases or, in the case of network data, digested down into a CSV. The climate sensors respond to requests on port 80 with the temperature and humidity separated by a comma to allow for easy polling. The map is generated by looking up the IPs' information on Shodan then plotting the location data if it was present.
Absolutely none of this is the ideal solution, there are existing projects that cover literally every aspect plus a dozen extra features I could never hope to implement. I wrote as much as I could from scratch just to see if I could, it's more fun to drive a shitty car that you built than one you bought from the dealer.
Aaaand I accidentally made the UPS database only 24hrs instead of the 10years I had intended. Lucky for me rrdtool has a function to expand an rrd without wiping out the data!
I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!
I would rather have a netbook with a cellular modem than a phone at this point. They are all 6" diagonal slabs of brain cancer.