Glad I drive old stuff
Your New Truck is Spying on You
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JaSAn
, Dec 20 2019 10:02 PM
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Posted 21 December 2019 - 02:15 AM
And I use a dumb fone too. It isn't a PDA, it's a fone and that is all that it is allowed to do!
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Posted 21 December 2019 - 02:20 AM
...............what a shame to wake up one morning and realize, "My truck just emptied my bank account and went to Vegas."
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Posted 21 December 2019 - 03:49 AM
I just spent several hours going down rabbit holes researching this. Scary with how much information companies and marketers want to get their hands on.
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Posted 21 December 2019 - 04:04 PM
Internet info. Is the new money industry. Look and how rich all the internet companies are that collect info on everything we do.
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Posted 21 December 2019 - 05:37 PM
I have heard that Toyota has long had wireless data collection on their vehicles for crash data...perhaps to combat lawsuits on accidents.
Just like when TV first come out, the WEB has so much good potential....but it is largely a tool of corporate commerce,
Oh well Merry Christmas anyway.
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Posted 23 December 2019 - 01:09 AM
This is just new info on an old story...15 years ago i wrote a newspaper story about what was being collected then. When manufacturers put computers in cars, they also recorded a few seconds of data. When they added the ability to connect, memory increased and more data was recorded...next it will be cameras, the manufacturers will be replacing or enhancing rear and side view mirrors with cameras which will record and can be used against you...
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Posted 23 December 2019 - 04:11 AM
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana. Give me my 1973 C/K pickup coming to me..........
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Posted 23 December 2019 - 02:49 PM
...............what a shame to wake up one morning and realize, "My truck just emptied my bank account and went to Vegas."
Thankfully it didn't take your wife (or significant other) as well!
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Posted 23 December 2019 - 02:52 PM
Yep...really missing my 2003 F-250 7.3 that I sold to buy a new 2016 F-350. The '16 Super Duty just went through a bunch of sensor/network issues that required Ford do perform a "wire overlay". Which, I think, is a term for replacing bad wires in the harness without opening the harness itself. Truck is out of warranty. Ford performed the repair at no cost to me, which leads me to believe they have a known issue that has not triggered a recall.
Edited by Advmoto18, 23 December 2019 - 02:53 PM.
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