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Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It. (www.yahoo.com)
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This is getting out of hand.

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[โ€“] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So.. yours does track you.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago

No it does not. The AA phone is a dedicated one without SIM and a dummy google account. Whatever they track is not only useless, it couldn't even leave the phone.

And the car itself has no uplink or anything that would need one. The best the onboard system can do is show the time and play radio. Without the phone the car is dumb as a wet rock.