Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform

Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform(heise.de)

27 points by _____k 61 days ago | 11 comments

Thank you, you made be go down the Google hole to see if my MX-5 ND had anything like this... and it doesn't! Since only >= 2018 homologations are required to have an eCall module builtin, the ND only works if you have a smartphone connected to it.

So the tip is: all European models released in and after 2018 are compromised (as in always connected to the GSM network).

hollow-moe 61 days ago |

Then don't put the spying tech in the car in the first place maybe ?

m463 61 days ago | |

too much customer preference data that customers don't prefer

diggernet 61 days ago |

https://archive.ph/O6gGB

jtbayly 61 days ago |

Is there anything I can do besides refuse to buy a car that collects telemetry? Are there such cars still being manufactured?

exabrial 61 days ago | |

Most sensible cars have modules that fail independently. I pulled the modem out of my 2018 k2 and it still works just fine.

With newer, esp electric vehicles, there is an absolutely clear trend of non-repairability; failure rather than resiliency. Don’t expect the ability to do this forever.

m463 61 days ago | |

Wonder how hard it would be to add

  ifconfig cellular-modem down

in the tesla boot sequence

ElFitz 61 days ago | |

I guess the only option nowadays is to buy an old used car.

Soon some of us will be back to using typewriters.

wkjagt 61 days ago | | |

I'm fixing up a 1981 Volvo 240. It would be wonderful if it could replace my EV one day.

xtiansimon 61 days ago | | |

> “… back to using typewriters”

Back to using vehicles with _fuses_.

intunderflow 61 days ago |

Remember when EU citizens were saying as little as a month ago having always on distracted driver cameras in all cars is completely fine because the government would never have access.

Hard to tell if it's naivety or cope.