Modern cars are computers on wheels - they have more sensors than you can count and are constantly phoning home with telemetry data like your location, speed, fuel levels, sudden accelerations/decelerations, video footage, driver attention data from eye monitoring systems, and hundreds of other data points. Cars have inward- and outward-facing cameras. They have microphones. They have always-on modems. It’s all enabled by default with difficult or meaningless opt-outs, and your data is monetized through brokers like LexisNexis or Verisk.

  • plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Some cars have the cellular modem (often called the “telematics module”) on a separate fuse. Just pull that and you’re good to go without doing any complex disassembly.