Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform

▲ Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform(heise.de)

27 points by _____k a day ago | 11 comments

▲ hollow-moe a day ago | parent | next [-]

Then don't put the spying tech in the car in the first place maybe ?

	▲	m463 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		too much customer preference data that customers don't prefer

▲ diggernet a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://archive.ph/O6gGB

▲ jtbayly a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is there anything I can do besides refuse to buy a car that collects telemetry? Are there such cars still being manufactured?

▲ exabrial a day ago | parent | next [-]

Most sensible cars have modules that fail independently. I pulled the modem out of my 2018 k2 and it still works just fine.

With newer, esp electric vehicles, there is an absolutely clear trend of non-repairability; failure rather than resiliency. Don’t expect the ability to do this forever.

▲ m463 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wonder how hard it would be to add

  ifconfig cellular-modem down

in the tesla boot sequence

▲ ElFitz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess the only option nowadays is to buy an old used car.

Soon some of us will be back to using typewriters.

	▲	wkjagt a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm fixing up a 1981 Volvo 240. It would be wonderful if it could replace my EV one day.
	▲	xtiansimon a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> “… back to using typewriters” Back to using vehicles with _fuses_.

▲ intunderflow a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remember when EU citizens were saying as little as a month ago having always on distracted driver cameras in all cars is completely fine because the government would never have access.

Hard to tell if it's naivety or cope.

▲ BoingBoomTschak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you, you made be go down the Google hole to see if my MX-5 ND had anything like this... and it doesn't! Since only >= 2018 homologations are required to have an eCall module builtin, the ND only works if you have a smartphone connected to it.

So the tip is: all European models released in and after 2018 are compromised (as in always connected to the GSM network).