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2024 mustang extensive invasions of privacy
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Also all these things he talks about you can just turn off lol.
Don't want the car to send data? Turn it off...
Don't want the speed limiter to be on? Turn it off...
Edit: lol why am I being downvoted? I'm right. Both are in car settings you can just turn off. Connectivity and speed limiter + traffic sign recognition.
Can you point to evidence that you can disable the speed limiter? I couldn't find anything except in a Mustang forum that said the only way was through a hardware tuner.
I have the GT parked in my garage. The options to turn off the sign recognition and change the cruise control limiter are under vehicle settings in my sync menu.
Have you actually verified whether you can turn this connectivity off? I know on other new cars it's embedded in the electronics with no on/off button.
And how do we know the dealer isn't going to turn it back on after every service visit?
Like how after every Windows update all my settings get reset 🤣
Yeah, it's a setting in the car infotainment system under connectivity.
You have like 4 options. One for each of the data types (so you can turn off cellular data but leave on GPS), and one to turn it all off. When it's all off there is no data being sent to or from the car at all.
Love how lemmy just downvotes cause they don't like that answer.
But they're all ON by default, right?
Depends on the country of sale and what the dealer does with it.
Some countries it has to be law be off by default.