The Washington Post hacked into a Chevy Volt several days ago with the help of a automotive technology expert to find out just how much automakers are spying on their owners and discovered that vehicles are recording their owners’ every move.
The Post used a 2017 Chevy Volt for its experiment and learned that the car collected a wide range of highly precise data ranging from the vehicles location to information about the driver’s cell phone, including call records — noting that many vehicles copy over personal data the moment that a smart phone is plugged into the vehicle.
The Post noted that the Chevy Volt did not inform drivers what information it was recording and did not make mention of it in the owner’s manual since there are no federal regulations protecting consumer’s privacy and data from automakers.
The Post went to Jim Mason, who has a PhD in engineering and reconstructs car accidents for a living by hacking into vehicles, for help hacking into the Chevy Volt.
You'll be shocked at what he found..
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4 comments:
Google and your smart phone is doing more ease dropping on you than the car is...
Funny thing is that his phone is tracking him way more than the car.
A question is, who is buying this information from GM?
The end justifies the means. this tries to make the Washington Post a hero for discovering this information. So, in reality it gives them full approval to use illegal hacking to take place anywhere. They are rats for doing so and Chevy are rats for deceiving the public. Let's not deceive the public anymore. Each of their motives are unscrupulous.
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