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Another car maker banned from my life forever (kotaku.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there still some e cars without bloatware and privacy issues??

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Here's an article from last year. It's Australian, but I think it likely that car brands have the same or similar privacy policies wherever you go.

    In short: Tesla and Korean brands are the worst. Japanese brands apart from Mazda are the best for privacy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not really, they've all had telemetry for probably 20 years.

    The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn't saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My 2016 doesnt have a modem. It has a Sirus radio...but sirus operates one way and has no way to communicate back.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My Japanese export 2016 doesn't either. Aside from the fact that we flashed the head unit with custom software, there's nothing for it to connect to in my country anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    flashed ... custom software

    Any hints on where one might find details on this?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Its Xanavi. I don't know if they're still around as we did about 3-4 years ago now. There might be alternatives by now. I know its not as simple as just flashing an OS as unfortunately each head unit has a unique key that has to be preserved (else it stops working, I assume for anti-theft purposes)...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    But i think its exploded how intrusive the car factory's are. Just because its a "new" tech, and the politics struggle to control it, or maybe don't wanna, because they also need the data. I want to buy a new car, e vehicle, but I haven't done it yet because of the privacy concerns. It feels like nobody, in my country, cares about it.

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