Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.
There are a lot of serious issues that get recalled that need to be fixed in software nowadays. If you disable the radio, sure you’re safe, but like you mention, if its stored on the car, now you either forego addressing recalls and risk your life, or you take it into the service center to manually update it and they get the data then.
If the data is stored in the car, that just changes the timing of the privacy breach, not its existence.
There are a lot of serious issues that get recalled that need to be fixed in software nowadays. If you disable the radio, sure you’re safe, but like you mention, if its stored on the car, now you either forego addressing recalls and risk your life, or you take it into the service center to manually update it and they get the data then.