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Your Car Is Spying on You
Loaded on Nov. 1, 2023
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2023, page 1
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance,
Electronic Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Michael Dean Thompson
While it is true that Americans tend to carry their cellphones as grafted appendages, it may be that their cars know even more about them than their cellphones. Consider the following scenario: Jane sees that her car is iced over, so she uses her remote key ...
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