cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1432229/your-car-is-a-smartphone-on-wheels-a-team-of-researchers-tested-21-vehicles-and-found-th
Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.
It must have a sim card somewhere right? How else is it phoning home?
eSIM. Gotta gut the modem and hopefully not break anything
Maybe start with removing the fuse for the modem to make sure nothing essential breaks?
Worth a shot. The question is whether the modem has its own fuse and isn’t integrated into the head unit
It is of course different for different brands, models and model year but my car seems to have a fuse for the Internet connection.
I’m getting tempted to pull it and see what happens more than the fault code.
I’d do it
Oh ya for sure it has a sim.
If it were my daily driver I’d dig in, find the antenna and shunt it to ground so it could not communicate
My wife is already not fully onboard with my need for privacy from these companies so I won regarding not activating the car but not sure she’d let me start pulling panels to find and kill the antenna.