Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels.
New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity. This invasive harvesting of information is collected via a web of sensors, microphones, cameras and the phones, apps, and connected services you use in your vehicle.
Car companies are brazenly collecting deeply personal information about people the moment they get into a car, often without explicit consent to do so. And that’s why the Mozilla community is now coming together to force car companies to respect our right to privacy. Add your name to ask car companies to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.
Find out more about our research on cars in the official launch blog post.
Possibly. But wire cutters exist. Installing custom firmware for a car seems unnecessarily dangerous. Just remove the fuse, cut a wire or go to a local shop and get the comms system disabled.
How are you going to find the power supply if you don’t know where it is? It’s doubtful it will be on its own dedicated fuse supply.
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. Some cars will not function properly without a cellular connection. They’re designed that way.
Which would mean that, again, every time you enter a tunnel your car goes up in flames? I don’t know what you guys wanna tell me here but what you’re saying is bullshit.
Then there’s a lot of the US that they’re not going to function properly in.
Not a viable solution since this will likely result in your entire infotainment system or other features being unusable. Not having the radio in your car work or not having safety features work would suck.
Oh no tapes tablet to car. Anyways, why would you entire infotainment system not work? You would just have no internet connection. Radio doesn’t work, yes, however most sane humans stream music anyways which is possible via bluetooth or, in case the comms module would also disable bluetooth, cable. Your choice, private sex life or ✨features✨.
Because that’s how they wire the cars. It’s like when you block shit with pihole and it breaks basic functionality. At least with pihole you can fine tune which domains you block. When you cut a wire, you power down the entire thing.
Guess what happens when you connect your phone to your car via bluetooth? Data collection! Most of the data collection happens from phones bro. You’re literally better off leaving the car alone and simply NEVER connecting your phone, unless it’s with an aux cable.
You don’t have to lecture me about privacy vs. Features. I fully get it. I value privacy very much. All I’m saying is that it will likely fuck up car features that you want if you randomly start cutting cables.
