Yeah exactly, with a car I would no longer be expecting any type of privacy, sad...

sneak · 2026-02-17T01:57:37 1771293457

It’s all of the EU. It’s literally illegal to sell new cars without a radio transceiver in them.

userbinator · 2026-02-17T03:06:29 1771297589

But is it illegal to personally disable it?

ThePowerOfFuet · 2026-02-17T07:09:05 1771312145

Nope.

ErroneousBosh · 2026-02-17T09:57:56 1771322276

I'm in two minds about this. Yes, there are severe privacy implications.

But also this happened, just a couple of hour's drive from where I live, about ten years ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-33505...

and similar things have happened about once a year ever since. Now in the news article I linked to a huge part of the problem was that the police didn't follow it up correctly, went to where the accident had been reported rather than where it had occurred, didn't see anything, and then gave up.

But if the car had rung from where it had actually crashed then the incident would have EISEC[1] data tagged to it, which would have given them actual co-ordinates to hit.

[1] https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/der... (first hit on google)