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

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

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Most car makers are global - and sell heavily in European markets, which are covered by the GDPR. So I suspect that for these manufacturers, many brands will be GDPR compliant by default. That said: - Under what principle is data collected (Article 6) - What measures have they put in place to enable access to PI (Article 15) - How consent may be withdrawn (Article 7) - How consent may be obtained when a vehicle is so…

They have enough volume that there doesn't have to be much money involved per vehicle to make US specific versions.

Of course if a US-spec vehicle is exported to the EU, GDPR then applies to any data collected by that manufacturer from that vehicle.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people like you.... Your post comes across as an ad-hominem attack. I read the post you're replying to as a warning, nothing more.

Thank you for the perspective. I suppose it was ad hom. I can't take his post in any way constructively (if it was a warning what am I supposed to do about it? Does he think I'm so stupid I can't see the risk already?) and while I don't doubt it was an honest comment, despite my suggestion of trolling which I regret making, I seriously doubt the poster considered the damaging effect it has on general discourse - or d…

Your comment brings to mind my experience on reddit: no matter how innocuous something I wrote seemed to me, someone attacked me for it. I finally bailed.

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

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I haven't seen it mentioned, but as a Tesla owner one concern I had was that if I sold my car Tesla might not get around to wiping the information it had on me. Worse there were stories of people selling cars where the new owner was given CC numbers and more of the old owner. Nice coincidence with the article is I had a 2017 Volt. Great car, hated OnStar. First just trying to make them go away is nearly impossible an…

You could install your own OS on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/a1fln4/rooted_...

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

#39

I haven't seen it mentioned, but as a Tesla owner one concern I had was that if I sold my car Tesla might not get around to wiping the information it had on me. Worse there were stories of people selling cars where the new owner was given CC numbers and more of the old owner. Nice coincidence with the article is I had a 2017 Volt. Great car, hated OnStar. First just trying to make them go away is nearly impossible an…

A sale would be an event where you can wipe data or at least have control over the situation. Worst case is a car accident that sends the driver to the hospital where the insurance company claims the car. Now they have a car with your daily routine, your favourite songs, GPS destinations, sensor logfiles, Sentry dashcam footage, crash data, calendar entries, phonebook entries. Probably not something you want your insurance company to have insight in.
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