Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you - IMDEA Networks
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Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signals from more than 20,000 vehicles, revealing a hidden privacy risk and highlighting the need for stronger security measures in future vehicle sensor systems. Most...
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  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    2 months

    All these “unintentional” tracking devices begin to look intentional.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.

      We bought “It’s just so we can catch the terrorists!” hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.

      But when “terrorism” is redefined as “making people in power upset,” we’re in big trouble.

      So don’t say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:

      https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=QS4bVx74nxU

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        2 months

        I never bought it, I was raising immortal hell then. But as a collective, yes we did, and as a collective, we’re sitting around moaning instead of doing something, anything, effective.

        • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          True, but your implication that I’m not doing enough while I’m sitting here complaining is just as well-served to the mirror.

            • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2 months

              Apologies - didn’t realize I was talking to someone who has bouts of nihilism mixed in with their political activism like rocks in a salad.

              Enjoy the block!