How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas
I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....
There are lots of reasons to want to shut off your car’s data collection. The Mozilla Foundation has called modern cars “surveillance machines on wheels” and ranked them worse than any other product category last year, with all 25 car brands they reviewed failing to offer adequate privacy protections.
With sensors, microphones, and cameras, cars collect way more data than needed to operate the vehicle. They also share and sell that information to third parties, something many Americans don’t realize they’re opting into when they buy these cars. Companies are quick to flaunt their privacy policies, but those amount to pages upon pages of legalese that leave even professionals stumped about what exactly car companies collect and where that information might go.
So what can they collect?
“Pretty much everything,” said Misha Rykov, a research associate at the Mozilla Foundation, who worked on the car-privacy report. “Sex-life data, biometric data, demographic, race, sexual orientation, gender — everything.” . . .
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Figure out where the modem is and Farraday Cage it.
Then it’ll lock 70% of features and nag and spam you every time you start the car with warnings and notifications.
I bought a samsung tv recently and I was shocked that only the antenna tv wotks without a samsung account.
So a cabin in the woods without internet can't have a playstation?
That's what I've been thinking too
That quite often requires tearing the dash apart and removing the radio, sometimes even disassembly of it. Also voids your warranty.