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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] 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.