Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

@WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2026-04-30 05:47

As it references the NTSA I think that this is a USA only issue.

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@sveltecider@lemmy.ca 2026-04-26 19:27

"I dont want a chinese car because it would just spy on me"

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@BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 15:49

We need to scrap the entire US government and start over.

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@flandish@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 18:43

as someone who has dealt with over 20 years of pulling victims, alive and dead, from crashes caused by drunks (am firefighter not terrible driver..) I can say this won’t help shit. Just give more data (profit) to corporations and be used in rights violating ways.

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@Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-26 15:46

It’s 1984 and no one cares

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@OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-26 07:01

The day the vehicle I paid for doesn't work because a goddamn sensor thinks I'm not fit to drive is the day I break my foot off in someone's ass. Fuck this dystopian shit show we're creating for ourselves. Vote better.

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@thoro@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 13:25

They will really do anything before investing in public transit

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@bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 17:38

Looks like I'll need to start stockpiling old camrys and corollas in addition to hard drives, routers, motherboards, ram, dumb TVs, flip phones/whatever else they're taking away this year.

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@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 03:33

How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?

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@doc@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-24 23:50

And when all the used cars are gone and I'm forced to buy one of these I'll promptly be destroying the radio transmitters and everything related to this surveillance.

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@brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-25 02:42

Why are govts like this suddenly? All in a arms race against privacy?

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@Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-26 01:13

https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027 Can we post the original sources and not middle men?

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@WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 21:49

The used car market looks mighty good right about now.

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@SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 2026-04-25 00:48

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@viov@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 22:15

Open source hardware needs to be built up more. To do that we need more new people active in that to get different things done. Including vehicles

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@jtrek@startrek.website 2026-04-26 20:34

You'd think more libertarian types would be more in favor of walkable cities, biking, and such.

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@Quexotic@infosec.pub 2026-04-26 23:21

I can't wait to have to buy active countermeasures for this shit. /s

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@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 11:07

Every technology is eventually used against you by the state

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@tristynalxander@mander.xyz 2026-04-26 20:10

So... ICE will know both your location and face every time you get in your car? Yeah, I'm sure this won't result in a genocide. ^/s^

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@better_than_god@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 14:50

Chinese EVs it is, nonIronically safer and more trustworthy than American products

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@adespoton@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 23:47

Reminder that this requires all vehicles be SOLD with the tech. It says nothing about what happens to it after purchase.

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@SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2026-04-25 05:42

Cars have been privacy nightmares for quite a while. People simply do not care.

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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 23:48

I am never buying a car built after 2016

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@oce@jlai.lu 2026-04-25 00:57

2027, year of Linux car, or bicycle.

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@lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 05:56

So this works perfectly and has no bugs, right? There's probably going to be millions of false positives everyday and people won't be able to use their cars. Between this and AI age verification and everything else, the dumbass politicians in power seem to think all this shit is magical wizardry. Their going to cause society to collapse.

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@RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 16:08

Only drive cars made before Onstar and similar systems were added in the early 90s. They have been tracking you for a long time. But even then you need a license plate, which is constantly collected in most urban areas, stored and sold. It's really impossible to travel anywhere even if you have no phone giving away your location. Flock and all the surveillance systems also tie into the license plate data. Cars began having cell connections and other ways to broadcast data after the onstar type systems were added. Now it's a whole other world with the amount of data cars like Tesla can collect. /OldManRant

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@CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 13:04

This is fucked. But aren't "passenger vehicles" actually quite rare? I think most (environmental and safety) regulation is on passenger vehicles, which is why auto manufacturers try and sell so many trucks and SUVs since they don't count as "passenger vehicles". I could be wrong and this mandate is going to target all consumer vehicles. Fuck all cars and our American car brained culture. But also fuck this legislation.

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 04:04

What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn't there a huge public outcry against it?

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@Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 14:01

Another system to allow hackers into your automobile. The federal government could use the biometric data from car for passport photos. On the other hand, I despise drivers under the influence.

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@Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 21:47

Bought a 2000 Honda Civic precisely because I don't want to be spied upon. Spank my ass cause everything else already does, so it makes my effort almost completely moot.

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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-04-25 06:29

My car is constantly telling me to drive with both hands or yo get coffee when I am driving fine. Many years ago I had a somewhat scary car accident and since I drive very cautiously and never speed. Yet this fucking thing is still yelling at me all the time. If I could figure out how it decides to yell at me, I would unplug it.

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@Cad@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 00:02

Drunk driving is one thing but it will also judge how tired you are? Driving tired is dangerous. Unfortunately a huge portion of our economy runs on people working too many hours at too many jobs. A huge invasion of privacy with all sorts of knockon effects. For the people who think they will disable this. You won't be able to without also disabling your car and voiding your warrenty.

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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 09:16

If this comes to Canada I'll be driving an electric scooter or bike.

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@Sunflier@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 20:38

So I'll have reduced millage/charge and extra weight for carrying around this surveillance technology for the government and whose sole benefit will be the government? Will I be compensated for this burden? No? Would I be penalized for removing it from my car on my own? What happens if it "breaks"? Will I be expected to fork over my own money to repair/replace the government's surveilance device? Logically speaking, burdening the car's operating with a regulatory requirement like this could constitute a taking. Then again, it could be a logical extension of Congress's taxing and spending power, but it probably isn't without a strict mandate from Congress to have those devices. Maybe it goes to Congress's powers to regulate interstate commerce.

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@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 11:32

Lol pre 2027 cars will sell at a premium

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@Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-25 07:55

guess its time to buy the 1995 ford then?

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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 21:26

Drivers in tatters. I'll just walk outside where there's no surveillance.

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@Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2026-04-25 04:31

So how much is this tech going to raise already stupidly high car prices.