• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    -hijacks the cellular connection in your phone when you connect it to the car.

    How would it do this without the user triggering it? I don’t own a newer car, is this a real thing some of them can do?

    I know in my phone I have to turn on sharing the mobile connection via USB, it’s not something that just happens.

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        5 months ago

        It’s entirely unnecessary, your car is already registered to your name and address via title and registration and already reports GPS data back to home on nearly every car made after 2016, and your phone is always where you are and reporting back unless you have all your data connections turned off. You don’t need to sync them up at all. It’s already happening.