I’m looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone’s kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone’s data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.
I’ve tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I’m talking about and can provide a link?
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My question is: which cars have toggle switches built-in, or have a community of hackers that have published guides on how to turn off the car’s internet access, microphones, cameras, and other unnecessary sensors…
I hate to admit I saw this on r/conspiracy. Maybe there’s a link in there.
Nothing wrong with that. I’ll give it a look, thanks
But the phone’s owner could have been a passenger. Seems unrealistic
Good point. I would like to understand it better if the data/info is out there
My friend was talking about this over the weekend. I really hope this is not true.
Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:
I didn’t know about this opt out code. Pretty nifty. Thanks