Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?
Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
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Re: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
#82Does the California CCPA apply here? I've only seen it discussed for websites, but does it work for any company doing business in CA? Wondering if California residents could send a delete request to Toyota (and other companies like Samsung for data gathered by smart tvs).
If a lot of people start regularly sending CCPA delete requests to these companies maybe they will stop gathering this data.
Re: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
#83Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?
At this point I'd like reviewers to start disclosing how difficult it is to remove the LTE antennae and whether or not the car degrades itself when you do.
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#84> It is important to note that the exposed details do not constitute personally identifiable information, so it wouldn't be possible to use this data leak to track individuals The data included timestamped GPS data, which has been demonstrated to be easy to de-anonymize.
But the VIN number was available, as it says right below that I mean does anyone think there HASN'T been a leak of VIN numbers and owners that would be trivial to join with this? It's also kind of staggering how long this was a problem Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and…
I don't think it's any indicative of how long this problem has been here? Unless I misunderstood, because after re-reading I guess I see how you did read it.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> largely thanks to regen braking allowing you to avoid new pads or discs I’m almost there with the old-school way: a manual transmission and downshifting to decelerate. While not as effective, drum brakes really lasted a while.
you can downshift some auto tranmissions too. Although you're trading brake pad wear for transmission clutch wear.
Clutch disc is much more expensive to replace, BTW. You won't notice if you buy new every other year, of course.
Re: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
#86> It is important to note that the exposed details do not constitute personally identifiable information, so it wouldn't be possible to use this data leak to track individuals The data included timestamped GPS data, which has been demonstrated to be easy to de-anonymize.
All of five seconds. Where does the car park at night? Put the address into https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/address
Re: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
#87Wow, bring on the lawsuits! Important to bring this to light to protect ourselves. Will be more informed on my next car purchase coming up this year.
From 2014: "Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car"
Re: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
#88Their privacy policy is wild and every customer is opted into the connect services by default. Interior images, exterior images, facial geometry, voice recordings, location/driving data, "multimedia screen data", https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230512182022/https://www.toyot...
All car shrink-wrap licenses that I have looked at are similar. That's why I think it is funny when people freak out about Android Automotive. The Android Automotive terms are much, much better for customer privacy. The EULA for my Honda says that Honda can and will share all available data with itself and third parties, named and unnamed, for any or no reason.
Funny, I looked around and couldn't find an equivalent for Honda motorcycles. Perhaps Honda understands their customers better than we think. Honda seems perfectly willing to build tracking-free products when the customer base cares enough. I have never met any sportbike rider willing to share one iota of ongoing GPS data with anyone.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Interior images, exterior images, facial geometry, voice recordings, This is an absolutely unbelievable level of privacy intrusion IMO. I 100% support very heavily fining this sort of behavior, otherwise it will continue to proliferate.
It will never get fined because it’s how the people who legislate fines are making (and keeping) their money and control.
That's not how democracy works. Apathy is toxic. Please stop hurting us.
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#90Japanese auto completely missed the memo on software. Many of them won't make the ev transition. It's hard to imagine what Japanese economy is going to be like once their auto industry is gutted.
Where are all these American companies getting their batteries from? Mostly Japan... Rivian, Tesla, Lucid, Gravity, Ford, GMC.
Do you have any sources for that claim. Because the big 3 are CATL, LG, BYD. Panasonic is the only notable Japanese supplier but it's trending down fast.