DH Plugged His Phone Into a rental Car

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do see vestiges of other peoples phones in rental cars pretty often. Usually a phone name and other stuff. I guess the main thing is don’t let it download your contacts. I don’t even do that with my own car because the manufacturers are sapping every bit of info about you. It’s really pretty bad.

You cannot stop them downloading or uploading. Sure you can hit some "preference" but read the fine print. You agreed to it when you purchased the product.
The person is the product and revenue now.
That's how they sell $5000 TVs for just a few hundred dollars now, they are gathering immense amounts of marketing and other data from the users.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do see vestiges of other peoples phones in rental cars pretty often. Usually a phone name and other stuff. I guess the main thing is don’t let it download your contacts. I don’t even do that with my own car because the manufacturers are sapping every bit of info about you. It’s really pretty bad.

You cannot stop them downloading or uploading. Sure you can hit some "preference" but read the fine print. You agreed to it when you purchased the product.
The person is the product and revenue now.
That's how they sell $5000 TVs for just a few hundred dollars now, they are gathering immense amounts of marketing and other data from the users.

Well it asks if you want to download your contacts and I say no. If it doesn’t honor that I guess it’s pointless. My contacts don’t appear in the car console anyway. Maybe they grab them anyway. I’m not dumb enough to connect my tv to the network.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do see vestiges of other peoples phones in rental cars pretty often. Usually a phone name and other stuff. I guess the main thing is don’t let it download your contacts. I don’t even do that with my own car because the manufacturers are sapping every bit of info about you. It’s really pretty bad.

You cannot stop them downloading or uploading. Sure you can hit some "preference" but read the fine print. You agreed to it when you purchased the product.
The person is the product and revenue now.
That's how they sell $5000 TVs for just a few hundred dollars now, they are gathering immense amounts of marketing and other data from the users.

Well it asks if you want to download your contacts and I say no. If it doesn’t honor that I guess it’s pointless. My contacts don’t appear in the car console anyway. Maybe they grab them anyway. I’m not dumb enough to connect my tv to the network.

That's about all you can do if you want to use them, other than changing the software programming yourself, if you have the ability.

Periodically check your settings too, as they often revert them to "allow" when you get updates and such.

[Anonymous]

The old advice was about Bluetooth and usb pairing where your contacts were downloaded into the car so it could display names and numbers.

Modern cars have a proprietary interface for CarPlay where it basically acts as an external screen for your phone, I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

The one concern I would have is and wiring from a beat up rental and getting higher voltage or a short from a dodgy USB and frying phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The old advice was about Bluetooth and usb pairing where your contacts were downloaded into the car so it could display names and numbers.

Modern cars have a proprietary interface for CarPlay where it basically acts as an external screen for your phone, I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

The one concern I would have is and wiring from a beat up rental and getting higher voltage or a short from a dodgy USB and frying phone.

Public WiFi is pretty risky, don’t touch it without a vpn. I think it’s safe to assume that anything you share with your car is also shared with the car manufacturer. It’s up to you whether you care or not. Some do, the rest babble something about tin foil.

[Anonymous]

I did too. I always do.

[Anonymous]

Honestly on the risk profile, I assume he used the CarPlay for navigation, and the risk he will get into accident trying to hold his phone up to read the map vs the CarPlag navigation probably far exceeds car checking identity theft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

LMAO. Yeah, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The old advice was about Bluetooth and usb pairing where your contacts were downloaded into the car so it could display names and numbers.

Modern cars have a proprietary interface for CarPlay where it basically acts as an external screen for your phone, I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

The one concern I would have is and wiring from a beat up rental and getting higher voltage or a short from a dodgy USB and frying phone.

Public WiFi is pretty risky, don’t touch it without a vpn. I think it’s safe to assume that anything you share with your car is also shared with the car manufacturer. It’s up to you whether you care or not. Some do, the rest babble something about tin foil.

This ^

Also, I'll just add, VPN's are being compromised quite often now. Honeypots gathering data from unsuspecting users.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The old advice was about Bluetooth and usb pairing where your contacts were downloaded into the car so it could display names and numbers.

Modern cars have a proprietary interface for CarPlay where it basically acts as an external screen for your phone, I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

The one concern I would have is and wiring from a beat up rental and getting higher voltage or a short from a dodgy USB and frying phone.

Public WiFi is pretty risky, don’t touch it without a vpn. I think it’s safe to assume that anything you share with your car is also shared with the car manufacturer. It’s up to you whether you care or not. Some do, the rest babble something about tin foil.

This ^

Also, I'll just add, VPN's are being compromised quite often now. Honeypots gathering data from unsuspecting users.

Do you know of particular vpn services that have been compromised? I try to go with non-obvious ones if possible. I figure the larger the user base the more likely it is to be risky.

[Anonymous]

Business traveler here. I've been connecting my phone to rentals cars since the first aux cord inputs came out. Car Play is wonderful.

Move on.

[Anonymous]

Apple CarPlay doesn't store anything in the car. It's all removed when you disconnect the phone and it is encrypted so the car manufacturer does not have any access to the data. Remember that car manufacturers were never happy about supporting CarPlay and the Android equivalent. They were forced to by public demand (generated by Apple and Google) and competition with other car brands. They would prefer that you use their proprietary car operating systems so that they can collect your data, and some have tried moving away from supporting CarPlay or Android.

Bottom line, if it's CarPlay or Android, it's safe. Google and Apple already have access to all of your data and plugging in doesn't give access to anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The old advice was about Bluetooth and usb pairing where your contacts were downloaded into the car so it could display names and numbers.

Modern cars have a proprietary interface for CarPlay where it basically acts as an external screen for your phone, I’m pretty sure it’s fairly secure interface and no worse than going on public WiFi?

The one concern I would have is and wiring from a beat up rental and getting higher voltage or a short from a dodgy USB and frying phone.

Public WiFi is pretty risky, don’t touch it without a vpn. I think it’s safe to assume that anything you share with your car is also shared with the car manufacturer. It’s up to you whether you care or not. Some do, the rest babble something about tin foil.

This ^

Also, I'll just add, VPN's are being compromised quite often now. Honeypots gathering data from unsuspecting users.

Do you know of particular vpn services that have been compromised? I try to go with non-obvious ones if possible. I figure the larger the user base the more likely it is to be risky.

There's no way to know for sure with most easily found ones for normies. Look at where their servers are and laws in that country. Also, their ties to other countries, corporations, billionaires, governments, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apple CarPlay doesn't store anything in the car. It's all removed when you disconnect the phone and it is encrypted so the car manufacturer does not have any access to the data. Wrong. Remember that car manufacturers were never happy about supporting CarPlay and the Android equivalent. Wrong again. They love the data. Makes them money selling it. They were forced to by public demand You spelled "government" wrong. (generated by Apple and Google) and competition with other car brands who are also gathering data to sell. They would prefer that you use their proprietary car operating systems so that they can collect your data They do anyway, and some have tried moving away from supporting CarPlay or Android.

Bottom line, if it's CarPlay or Android, it's safe. Sure Google and Apple already have access to all of your data Correct finally! and plugging in doesn't give access to anyone else. Until they sell it and share it with political and corporate entities. Or so-called hackers, there's always that as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business traveler here. I've been connecting my phone to rentals cars since the first aux cord inputs came out. Car Play is wonderful.

Move on.

Oh well, heck. Nothing to see here then, a business traveler has spoken. All data is safe afterall. All the hundreds of billions of incidents of breached and shared data were imaginary.