What is your phone telling your rental car?

Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by taprun on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:25PM (#12425890)

My phone isn't telling my rental car anything. I turned bluetooth off.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by nxzero on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:29PM (#12425911)

At the very least, it's telling them you turn off Bluetooth.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by skafjvhs on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:51PM (#12426040)

Are you saying the car has a mechanism to catalogue different drivers without bluetooth?

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by hackuser on Sunday September 04, 2016 @04:50PM (#12426644)

Wifi MAC address or other identifier is one method.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by bsilvereagle on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:02PM (#12427527)

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, some 2015 Chevys have the option for built-in wi-fi (4G LTE) making MAC tracking a legitimate concern. Granted, the rental isn't getting contacts/texts/etc like this article is talking about, but your rental could guess at the number of passengers or determine how long you spend parked outside of Starbucks based on how long it sees Starbucks wi-fi (assuming the vehicle doesn't have GPS), etc.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by dalke on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:33PM (#12425931)

Or have a feature phone with no Bluetooth.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by FreeFull on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:45PM (#12426003)

Or don't have a phone at all with you.

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Re:What is your phone telling your rental car? by trav4225 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:51PM (#12426367)

Or have a landline with a reaaaaaaly long cable.

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