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[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, how are CARS intercepting mobile activities?

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you connect to Bluetooth, it asks your phone to share call, contact and SMS information.

Think like the old horrible headunit text implementation, the ability to scan your contact list from the car, and see your recent calls.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Mozilla tested a bunch. Try a search on the platform and see.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Through android auto and apple car play would be my guess, but i don't know.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There’s no way Apple lets the automaker access app data from your phone. Apps on the phone can’t even see data from other apps on the phone.

There are two ways I can think of for the infotainment to get the messages. The first is by OCR-ing the CarPlay screen, which is shady as hell. The second is a feature like this one where the car has Bluetooth notification integration.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Regarding OCR theory, the screen never shows messages. It only will read them aloud because you’re driving and shouldn’t be reading your texts.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is "call history", "contacts" or "text messages"

I'd assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn't need OCR to do other things with that data

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Apple probably just lets it happen.