Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Can’t you rip out the wifi radio, or cover it in aluminum foil or something? This is ridiculous.
TCU is what we are looking for here, in modern automotive terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telematic_control_unit
This is the spyware box in most modern vehicles. Can you find it? Can you unplug it? What happens when you disconnect it from the computer bus of the car? Those are the questions we need answered for every car on the road, for our mutual benefit.
Plus they can pull the data if you bring it for service.
You can pull the fuse but this also disables Bluetooth iirc.
Pull the fuse, good idea! I bet that would set off all kinds of alarms in the car’s computer and it would constantly tell you to go in for service but that’s a decent trade off.
There’s always another fuse you can pull to make that go away as well.
At this point just throw the car battery away.