from the article:
> "Ulysses can provide our clients with the ability to remotely geolocate vehicles in nearly every country except for North Korea and Cuba on a near real time basis," the document, written by contractor The Ulysses Group, reads. "Currently, we can access over 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month," the document adds.
What is unclear from this article, and perhaps manufacturer specific, is if a vehicle has a telematics system but the owner does not have an active subscription is vehicle data still being collected?
From the article: "Vehicle telematics is data transmitted from the vehicle to the automaker or OEM through embedded communications systems in the car," the Ulysses document continues. "Among the thousands of other data points, vehicle location data is transmitted on a constant and near real time basis while the vehicle is operating."
Surely you would know if there was a SIM card in your car? How else could this be done?
I really want to have an electric truck as my next vehicle, but with all the technology and phoning home that's being put into them - I'm going to be driving old ICE trucks for the foreseeable future.
We need instructions to disconnect any car.
Living in the future sucks.
We thought we were going to get an Asimovian utopia. Instead it’s more like a sad cross-over between gibson and orwell.
2020 Toyota owners there’s likely a DCM fuse you can pull, there is in the Tacoma I picked up (pun intended) “Data Collection Module” I believe, however it will also curiously disable the in-cabin microphone, fine by me... even finer now that I know those are connected... my research indicated that there’s a Verizon “SIM” embedded in the vehicle