I did not consent to this, pay for this, nor was I informed until a couple days after making the deal. Come to find out it had been tracking everywhere I went, where I stopped, for how long, and pulling info from the car too. The company running it seems sketchy and carves out what they say they’re allowed to do with my tracking data.
I’m hearing that this is getting common these days, but it sure feels super creepy! It used to be only for the buy-here pay-here dealers that cater to subprime credit, but now I’m hearing of this happening at many regular dealerships on new cars.
After they have no other use for it, they turn control over to the buyer and spin it as being a benefit (anti-theft and diagnostics), but of course the car already comes with a far better system built into it by the OEM (which doesn’t hide its presence and asks me for consent). Seems more like a privacy-invading data harvester to me. It was also comically easy to find and remove, so it’s no issue for thieves.
I also tracked down the manufacturer, who gives the hilarious advice of installing a GPS jammer if you don’t want to be tracked. It’s super illegal to do that.
Moynia
Throw that SIM in a 4G hotspot, usually they have unlimited data lol
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I did not consent to this, pay for this, nor was I informed until a couple days after making the deal. Come to find out it had been tracking everywhere I went, where I stopped, for how long, and pulling info from the car too. The company running it seems sketchy and carves out what they say they’re allowed to do with my tracking data.
I’m hearing that this is getting common these days, but it sure feels super creepy! It used to be only for the buy-here pay-here dealers that cater to subprime credit, but now I’m hearing of this happening at many regular dealerships on new cars.
After they have no other use for it, they turn control over to the buyer and spin it as being a benefit (anti-theft and diagnostics), but of course the car already comes with a far better system built into it by the OEM (which doesn’t hide its presence and asks me for consent). Seems more like a privacy-invading data harvester to me. It was also comically easy to find and remove, so it’s no issue for thieves.
I also tracked down the manufacturer, who gives the hilarious advice of installing a GPS jammer if you don’t want to be tracked. It’s super illegal to do that.
Throw that SIM in a 4G hotspot, usually they have unlimited data lol