Apps that remotely track and control cars are being weaponized by abusive partners. Car manufacturers have been slow to respond, according to victims and experts.

She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

  • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There’s privacy versus the car company that has various levels of concern about it.

    This is privacy versus others with access to your car.

    It should be easy to remove another user’s access from within the car