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Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I assume, “does not sell location data,” is like the government which "does not sell laws," but 'our 884 lobbying partners' can have influence.

the minute you hook up your phone to Bluetooth, it automatically downloads all the information off your phone

But this I'm skeptical of. What data does it get from the phone? Bluetooth you can allow it to have your call history, right? And maybe contacts? At least you can choose, I think?