evacideThe first person to write a comprehensive report on the use of integrated car tech in domestic abuse situations will win my eternal gratitude, as expressed through the purchase of drinks.
Eric Nichols 
@evacide Car tech used to enable or prevent domestic abuse?
praccu@evacide oh jeez. I took a call (on a suicide hotline) many years back, with a woman who couldn't leave because (1) the car had LoJack and (2) hotels wouldn't take her with a dog.
Got her the phone number of a DV nonprofit. They sent her a taxi and got her into transitional housing.
Domestic abuse callers could (sometimes) be some of the easiest to help because they already wanted help and they just needed resources.
Tim Panton@evacide @RisuToInu might know of such a study.
RisuToInu@steely_glint @evacide I will do it if I get support, you can’t do it on your own
eagerpebble@evacide I will pitch in for a round of those drinks. We really need to get regulation of car tech. Tesla really showed the auto and auto tech industries exactly how shitty everything could be, and they ate it up.
Andrew Zonenberg@eagerpebble @evacide Yeah I would love to see legislation targeted at telematics etc.
For example, a law that all "phone home" functionality in a vehicle must be possible to permanently disable in a well-documented, easily verifiable fashion which does not impair any other vehicle functionality.
Not like "oh we set this bit in some config file" but "we physically removed the telematics ECU, here's a photo of where it was".
@azonenberg @evacide That's a good start, but there are also lots of states that are going to start requiring everyone to put a phone home GPS device in their car because gas tax revenues are going down with increased hybrid and EV usage. So I'm not sure that states are willing to take that on.
Other things I'd like to see go away: uncontrolled UI changes, OTA software updates, non-tactile critical controls (e.g. wipers, lights)
Alien software, human hardware@azonenberg @eagerpebble @evacide why are those things even always active?
Make them only active when an airbag is triggered, or other cat alarm system is activated. Plus a manual (actual hardware) switch in the dash.
That would be a good law.
Make them only active when an airbag is triggered, or other cat alarm system is activated. Plus a manual (actual hardware) switch in the dash.
That would be a good law.
zach :verified:@eagerpebble @evacide someone decided to put the torment nexus on wheels.
Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡@evacide the gross part is this legit concern (along with other types of stalking) was weaponized by the anti-Right-To-Repair groups in MA.
Alex Sikora@evacide speaking of which: Apple's default family iCloud policy of being able to locate everyone's devices in the family
HTTP 1.1/418 Old Teapot Typewriter Font@evacide I would read that report.
notsoloud
Thomas Hansen 📝 🇩🇰@notsoloud @evacide That's way above my level. I hope someone else takes up the challenge.
@evacide yeah, haven’t seen anything. When I talked about this as a survivor and with that issue I was roundly patronised and even described as “a woman with a car”. Not someone with cybersecurity and advocacy experience drawing attention to an issue. I’d happily help with this but I got shut out last time so…
@evacide but as someone who once sat,shaking while I worked out what to do to make sure the car / my ex wasn’t tracking me ( there isn’t much you can do to be 💯 sure) , yeah, I could write this tomorow if I had other input. Edtech and car tech are the two things I yell about most
MarkNReprisal@evacide I did a couple pieces on stalking and tracking at last job. Right when I was trying to set up a seminar at a local DV shelter on digital privacy, the CEO shut everything down and said "Why the fuck should I care about domestic abuse??" Private equity loving punk ass b
Nicole ParsonsAirtags have already been used to murder stalking victims