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Topic: How much data does your car track? (Read 465 times)

legendary
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April 24, 2015, 11:30:29 PM
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hero member
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April 24, 2015, 09:55:44 PM
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What type of car do you have? Year Make Model Tech Packages etc would help.
full member
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April 24, 2015, 09:53:32 PM
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Probably more than we would like.
donator
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April 24, 2015, 06:01:28 PM
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I took my car in for a scheduled service and without me asking the dealer apparently gave the car a software update. The software that runs the navigation, radio, driver assist, cameras and what not now behaves differently. It seems a lot smarter than before and I am somewhat concerned that it might be tracking and reporting my movements to some central database. It is a fairly new car with a lot of electronic gizmo and I am in the US. It seems to be connected to some network because I do get live traffic updates that enables the GPS to bypass traffic jams.

Does anybody here know exactly how much data a car tracks - say those equipped with OnStar or ConnectedDrive? I am guessing that this forum might have a number of privacy conscious readers who might know the answer.
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