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Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What's the dumbest new car? That's what I want.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)

None of them unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why I'm going to drive my 2012 RAV4 until it dies or I die, whichever comes first. I'd love to switch to an EV but unless something drastically changes in the industry, I'm not paying that kind of money for a car company to spy on me. At least my phone does me the courtesy of being fairly cheap while it harvests my data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think you can get low end Nissan Leafs with none of infotainment tracking stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh Mazda isn’t listed. I assume because it wasn’t tested, rather than because it’s so much better than the others

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's correct. All models not listed were simply just not evaluated. You cannot trust any of them at this point. Which is just a pure fucking shame.

I'd personally like to see them do an exhaustive research into all brands... so I can actually strictly buy the one that values me the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My new car, I'm gonna find out how to rip out internet capability from it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you feel about kit cars?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would immediately break something like that. I wish I had that kind of time/expertise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

i wish those existed in my country, they look fun as hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Do they have airbags?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The Carice TC2 looks a good one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Can’t 100% avoid it, but your best bet is getting a base model. It will probably still have some tracking somehow, but it will be the one with the least “tech”.