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All your cars are belong to us

The judge must drive a Mercedes.
 

BBC Watchdog highlights Toyota and Lexus keyless car theft problems​

  • Show this week highlighted problem with some Toyota and Lexus models
  • Criminals stole vehicles using a keyless entry hack that started in London and spread across UK
  • Manufacturer says it will retrofit a solution to affected cars at its dealers
 

General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry.
The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that collected data about how the car had been driven and promised feedback and digital badges for good driving.
Some drivers said their insurance rates had increased as a result of the captured data, which G.M. shared with two brokers, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk. The firms then sold the data to insurance companies.
Since Wednesday, “OnStar Smart Driver customer data is no longer being shared with LexisNexis or Verisk,” a G.M. spokeswoman, Malorie Lucich, said in an emailed statement. “Customer trust is a priority for us, and we are actively evaluating our privacy processes and policies.”
Romeo Chicco, a Florida man whose insurance rates nearly doubled after his Cadillac collected his driving data, filed a complaint seeking class-action status against G.M., OnStar and LexisNexis this month.
An internal document, reviewed by The Times, showed that as of 2022, more than eight million vehicles were included in Smart Driver. An employee familiar with the program said the company’s annual revenue from Smart Driver was in the low millions of dollars.
 
Yeah, no. Fuck that. I'm starting the timer until someone whistleblows that they never stopped.
 
Yeah, no. Fuck that. I'm starting the timer until someone whistleblows that they never stopped.
Check the wording - at least in the excerpt above it leaves the wiggle room that they stopped sharing data with those exact two brokers. Just switch to a different middle-man and they’re not technically lying.
 
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Police Issue Warning To Motorists Over Hidden AirTags, What You Need To Know​


 
And if you are one of the 3 Billion Android users (70%+ of the global smartphone market) you are SOL on finding these things.
 

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate​



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHFCpQdZyg
 
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