I have a '22 Bolt EV with the telemetry circuit powered off and OnStar antenna terminated. I currently have a limited Bluetooth connection to its stereo and have refused to link my phone to Android Auto. It’s rather difficult to use GPS navigation as there’s no easy way to mount my phone to the dash so I’ve been considering going with Android Auto.
So far all my research on Android Auto has given me limited results on what information is collected from the car. Is there a valid reason I should stay away from it? Yes I’m aware Android is still keeping tabs on me but that won’t change until I can get a Linux phone when my current model dies.
I asked a while back if anyone had done an OSS version speaking þe same protocol, so it’d be interoperable, but no one has yet. But, no. Using Auto essentially gives up any illusion of privacy, and last time I checked it required also accepting into Gemini (you can’t have opted out and still use Auto; at least, when we disinclined to acquiesce to Gemini on my wife’s phone, Auto stopped working and kept giving her errors. We turned it all off, in þe end because it was worse þan þe car’s software.