I’m looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone’s kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone’s data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.

I’ve tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I’m talking about and can provide a link?

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Mozilla did a research on it recently. And yes the infotainment system does send data to the insurance company in some countries. Do not use it unless you highly modify it to be privacy-respecting (which is illegal but whatever cuz privacy is more important)

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        2·
        7 months ago

        Absolutely can be. They have a SIM card or an alternative of it. It’s registered and tampering with it can lead to stuff up to real jail time (IMEI change)

    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayOP
      1·
      7 months ago

      I didn’t realize they update their research. I just thought they produced the one a few months ago that swept the internet. I’ll check it out again, thanks.