But I love to exclude people

People who I exclude: Fascists, Tankies, Billionaires, Corporate executives, etc…

No, P stands for public

Virtual Public Network

Oh look at all these nice cars the rich people have, it’d be a shame if they go missing. 😏

1. You don’t need touch anything in the car for it to connect to the internet. It’s a brand new car, and the car salesperson just put the VIN in the app and you can see the location of the car. Which means, it was already connected right out of the factory.

Maybe if the US elect more republicans, Mexicans will stop coming in.

Not because of the walls, but because how enshittified the US will become under republican rule.

I didn’t mean “your” as in you specifically, but other people (edit: in fact, most people around the world still have to pay fares) who might be reading this and still live in a place that charges fares.

Maybe your city is different. But in my city, you have to use these RFID fare cards that have a unique number to identify it. Every time you use it, the location and time is logged. You can only buy these fare cards at designated places, which has a camera pointing directly at your face. Now, idk if they have facial recognition, but even if it doesn’t, all it takes is a human to link the card to your identity once, and your travels, past and future is accessible.

“Why don’t you just use a new one every time?” you might ask. Good question.

Each of these fare cards costs around $5, so it’s not very cost efficient to discard them for a little privacy. Plus, all that ewaste.

They actually let you have that $5 that it cost to buy the card to be added to your balance, but you have to register it on their website using your full name, email, phone number, and address. I never tried a vpn, but I suspect they block vpns, if they haven’t, they will likely do so in the near future.

Or you could choose to not register it, and lose out on the $5. But again, all it takes is one security guard thinking you look suspicious, and roll back the CCTV footage, and put the image of your face onto your fare card records. They don’t need to use some advanced facial recognition AI, just some human to save your face and connect it with your fare card identifier.

There is still a little privacy left: you can still use cash for buses (cash option is for buses only, no cash option for the subway), but soon, they’ll be removing that option.

If your city doesn’t already do this, they will soon.

The future will have no privacy, you can’t escape it. (Unless you live in the woods somewhere)

Shhh… Don’t tell them about the existence of buses and trains.

riding the bus

Public transit has no privacy

Use the sim for your phone and get free internet

Umm…

Are you the one causing climate change? 🤔

It has to connect to the internet somehow. Otherwise how could I see where the car is are using the Toyota app? I could see the tire pressure in each tire and the amount of fuel.

There is also this button at the top (the ceiling?) of the car that basically acts like an emergency button. Pressing it connects your car to someone at toyota that calls for roadside assistance. But idk why then even have that since most people have phones anyways.

It has to connect to the internet somehow. Otherwise how could I see where the car is are using the Toyota app? I could see the tire pressure in each tire and the amount of fuel.

There is also this button at the top (the ceiling?) of the car that basically acts like an emergency button. Pressing it connects your car to someone at toyota that calls for roadside assistance. But idk why then even have that since most people have phones anyways.

Some cars have an antenna built in to the car. I mean the antennas that connect to cell towers, not a fm radio antenna.

Privacy as in either no telemetry being sent back to the dealer, or the option to turn it off (actually being turned off, not just being set to “off”) The digital aspects of privacy, not car window tint.

Modern car as in a car that’s built within the last 5 years.

Also, I’m not actually looking for a car, just curious.

I mean the computerization of the car, especially when it comes to the in car entertainment system that is connected to car’s built in antenna.

https://www.toyota.com/connected-services/

You could now see your car’s tire pressue, fuel levels, and some even allows starting your car from a phone app. Who knows what “diagnostic data” is being sent back to the car dealer?

There are “privacy oriented” smartphone replacements. You could flash graphene os to a Pixel.

There is not really such thing for cars.

My parents new toytota has this feature that allows car’s gps location to be sent for “anti-theft” but that mean the car has an antenna that broadcast the location. Which means it could also activate the microphone inside the car (there is a voice command feature which means it has a microphone) and just listen in on conversations and send the voice recordings using that same antenna that lets the car to be tracked.

Not saying they do that, but the potential of that happening is not really fun to think about.

The Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, wore an eyepatch to show solidarity to pirates.

Source: https://lemmy.ca/post/4643373