Remove Modem/SimCard from a Car (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

3G was ended in 2022, which opens up a lot of models. I think 4g started being implemented around 2014.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Even before the official end man, towers were retired and so odds were against getting a connection though somecimes you could

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