Comment by hef19898

No idea if Mozilla checked the US or EU. But even in the EU car makers seem to collect, and use, excesive amounts of data. There is some EU legislation in the works so right now. Which is good.

I do not have issues with collecting data for crash investigation and such. And that your on board gps is collecting GPS data is somewhat normal. What I do not see any justification for is:

- sharing said data with manufacturers, instead of just saving it locally

- collecting data from phones or even passangers

- allowing manufacturers to analyse, use and sell sid data

- allow Apple and Google access to OBD data (that's why I just use bluetooth to stream music, but eho knows...)

- why a car has to be connected to the cloud to begin with

- why the infotainment system has access at all to OBD data (exception: data used for navigation, and that should only be used when needed and then deleted by the GPS)

Well, if I leave my phone at home, my car from 1982 seems to be save so. Now if I could just afford to use it as a daily... Well, no, too uncomfortable. But still. Anyway, time to remove the SIM that came with our latest used car bought directly from an official brand dealership. Assuming it is the only one, which it most likely isn't since the car has an emergency button, the deffinetly needs some for of connection I cannot control.