Pretty much every new car sold now is tracking you. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/fy-NL/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/ Who started this? Not China. It was Ford, in their 1996 Lincoln Continental, supposedly providing innocent sounding GPS and emergency location services. GM followed this with Onestar. GM's OnStar Smart Driver programme collected detailed driving information from customers' vehicles and supplied it to data companies including LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk.The FTC says that, in some cases, location information was collected as frequently as every three seconds. So basically ban all car makes, or ban them on the base of facebook usage. The reason the authorities expressed alarm on connectivity of Chinese companies is because they have been tracking you all along. They know the Chinese can do it because they, Western governments, have been doing this all along for the last 30 years. Darpa, for instance, has been working for decades on technologies to remotely immobilise vehicles. The EU looked at systems to take control of vehicles. UK police authorities work with car security companies to develop means to exploit embedded immobilisation systems remotely. Many recent Toyotas have OTA capabilities, which includes a remote shutdown function that Toyota can actuate upon request from Law Enforcement https://www.toyota.ca/content/dam/toyota/pdf/connected-services/Connected-Services-Privacy-Notice-Toyota-and-Lexus_EN_2026-01.pdf If you carefully cover all of the body modules on your car with 3 layers of bacofoil, pro DARvide an effective defence. Make sure all of your speakers are removed, because they are listening, all the time.
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