Your Vehicle is listening
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They REALLY don’t want me to ever buy another new car, do they?? I’ll have to figure out how to “factory reset” the Transit 250s…
Lots of luck with that. It's probably embedded so dero in the ECM you can't get to it!
Couldn't you just pull the fuse that powers the "cell connection" inside the car?
Before I retired I worked on a project for Australia's equivalent of America's Homeland Security Department. You have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what's going on behind the scenes!
The things Australia was doing with telephone data made us shiver with the reality of it all. Their tracking system identified all phone communication people had with each other within the country - in REAL TIME (this required massive systems with massive amounts of physical memory and massive semiconductor I/O systems)!
Their tracking system also tracked ALL incoming and outgoing calls into Australia. Suppose you lived in a foreign country and called a hotel in Australia to book a reservation. Their system would log your number, and if the foreign nation agreed to cooperate and share its own phone data, Australia's tracking system would identify all the phone numbers that "touched" the number making the hotel reservation.
But it doesn't stop there. Say your son called Australia for the hotel reservation. You, being the parent, you are linked to his phone.
But it doesn't stop there. All numbers connected to the parent's phone get tracked as well. And all numbers for the parent's friends got tracked, to their contacts, then to their contacts, then to their contacts, and so on and so on.
Basically, the tracking system was a gigantic upside down pyramid that was theoretically capable of identifying relationships for EVERY PHONE NUMBER ON THE PLANET.
Be scared, be very scared.
Scott
The things Australia was doing with telephone data made us shiver with the reality of it all. Their tracking system identified all phone communication people had with each other within the country - in REAL TIME (this required massive systems with massive amounts of physical memory and massive semiconductor I/O systems)!
Their tracking system also tracked ALL incoming and outgoing calls into Australia. Suppose you lived in a foreign country and called a hotel in Australia to book a reservation. Their system would log your number, and if the foreign nation agreed to cooperate and share its own phone data, Australia's tracking system would identify all the phone numbers that "touched" the number making the hotel reservation.
But it doesn't stop there. Say your son called Australia for the hotel reservation. You, being the parent, you are linked to his phone.
But it doesn't stop there. All numbers connected to the parent's phone get tracked as well. And all numbers for the parent's friends got tracked, to their contacts, then to their contacts, then to their contacts, and so on and so on.
Basically, the tracking system was a gigantic upside down pyramid that was theoretically capable of identifying relationships for EVERY PHONE NUMBER ON THE PLANET.
Be scared, be very scared.
Scott
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Don’t pair your phone to your car If this is something that concerns you.
Miss Moneypenny could be a double agent. Bad girl! I gotta be really careful around Abe because I'm not in charge of his maintenance and I may be unaware of "extra features." By the way, my Garmin starts listening whenever I clear my throat. Bug or feature?
I also worked on something similar before retirement Scott. It was with the U.S. DHS and much more data extensive than telephone numbers.
Has your NDA expired already?
Exactly. Wife is paired in her car. You can't understand when people are talking thur the radio. My truck and Challenger are not paired.
As already mentioned the simple fix is not to pair your phone with the car.
My guess is they fit in fine, only they're paying for technology they aren't going to use. Like it or not.
I don't bring my phone with me even. It hasn't left the house in at least a month
I do the same depending on where I'm going. I see a lot of people who use their phone like some kind of life support system. I'd be willing to bet if the phone was taken away from them they might go through some kind of withdrawal.
Sometimes "corporate" tells me to bring my phone with me, that's why it left the house a couple weeks ago.
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