Driver monitoring by MG and others

[kiwi]

In this Australian news item, driver monitoring and sometimes tracking is discussed:

Cars are data-harvesting machines. These brands share your personal information

The same topic has featured in other media but with less detail on which brand does what.

The MG4 has a feature to disable the cellular connection, has anyone tried this and what’s the practical downside?

 

[Anon70]

I would say even if your car is not tracking you then your mobile phone will be. Do all the satnav apps like Google Maps, Waze etc harvest your data to predict things like busy times to travel on certain roads. Do they remember all the trips you have taken, the speed you were travelling at and the routes you used?

Do you have a dash cam that track location via GPS. Does every road you use have zero CCTV cameras with ANPR systems logging information about where your vehicle has been?

You maybe able to limit some of the tracking and which company tracks and stores your data but you will never fully be able to be off grid unless you live in the middle of nowhere, only use cash for all transactions (that you do not obtain from an ATM) , don't use a mobile phone (or the internet) and have a car with no built in GPS or auto SOS system.

 

[Gadget Geek]

Have a look at Google Maps on your phone. If you use Android Auto, you can view ALL of your previous journeys.

Police Digital Forensics have successfully secured convictions using phone and car sat nav data. Love it or hate it, we live in a connected world.

Channel 4 - Murder Case: The Digital Detectives. Well worth a watch.

 

[kiwi]

Actually no Google, I use Apple. I do my best to limit Apple, Google, and Microsoft tracking. My home network has a bunch of blocks on as many known advertising surveillance things as I can. I also don’t use evil Facebook and I closed my Twitter account when they become X. The only tick tock I know about is the wall clock and I don’t ’gram anything either.

Also at least in this country ANPR is not shared with advertising agencies. And that was the main point of the article.

I don’t care about state tracking by friends or even less friendly countries. That data and method of collection is going to be pretty well guarded.

It’s unknown tracking for commercial purposes where there are no legislative or ethical constraints that is the concern here.

 

[Gomev]

Actually no Google, I use Apple. I do my best to limit Apple, Google, and Microsoft tracking. My home network has a bunch of blocks on as many known advertising surveillance things as I can. I also don’t use evil Facebook and I closed my Twitter account when they become X. The only tick tock I know about is the wall clock and I don’t ’gram anything either.

Also at least in this country ANPR is not shared with advertising agencies. And that was the main point of the article.

I don’t care about state tracking by friends or even less friendly countries. That data and method of collection is going to be pretty well guarded.

It’s unknown tracking for commercial purposes where there are no legislative or ethical constraints that is the concern here.

'Evil' Facebook tracks you even if you don't have an account, make sure to delete the app as well.

Here's How Facebook Tracks You in 2024 (and how to stop them)

"Facebook privacy" is an oxymoron. Discover not only what kind of data Facebook tracks, but also how they gather it and how you can stop it.

www.allthingssecured.com

 

[kiwi]

Already exorcised. Apart from privacy all those “unused” apps suck power with their parasitic data collection and updates.