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Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 days ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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If they actually follow through on making the Slate as privacy friendly as they claim in this article, and it doesn't have any major flaws, I'm gonna go ahead and say this is perhaps one of the best options for someone in need of a mini-truck/SUV hybrid.

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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like apple claims to protect its users privacy I guess. It ends up being a matter of trust with now a days mobile phones with wheels and motor

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If they really don't include a modem as they claim, then it would be truly fundamentally different, and apple's privacy claims would not be an apt comparison.

If a user does not install the Slate app, there would be literally no way for the vehicle to collect any information whatsoever, it would be like driving an EV from the 90's, if they had better batteries back then. That would make it stand out as the only privacy respecting modern production vehicle I'm aware of, besides toys for the rich like a Morgan.