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What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out

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Removing OnStar antenna and power was one of the first things I did on my new GM truck. It doesn't require any special tools or knowledge and only takes several minutes. The fact I had to do any of this at all instead of being asked to opt-in to data collection is depressing, but not unexpected in today's data-hungry market.

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Removing OnStar antenna and power was one of the first things I did on my new GM truck. It doesn't require any special tools or knowledge and only takes several minutes. The fact I had to do any of this at all instead of being asked to opt-in to data collection is depressing, but not unexpected in today's data-hungry market.

I’m shocked they didn’t rig it so doing what you did turns the check engine light on or something ridiculous.

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This is the primary reason why I sold my car and went carless the instant that was a feasible thing to do. If I should need to own a car in the future, it will be an older, pre-spying, one.

You're the first person I've met to claim that their aversion to motorized transportation had a basis in privacy.

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Is this info being collected for police cars? That could be useful in litigation.

Could you go in a bit more detail on your thoughts about this—would love more insight

Not OP, and not sure what they had in mind, but police departments “lose” data directly in proportion to how damaging it is to them. It would not be very useful in litigation.
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