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Sim cards are also installed in modern cars. If your anonymous or non-anonymous SIM card moves through radio cells together with the SIM card of a vehicle, they leave a trace through the traffic data of the providers involved. This may make it possible to identify who you are or who you are traveling with.

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As modern vehicles are permanently connected to the internet via their SIM cards, traffic data and therefore rough location data is constantly being collected by the providers. This can be compared with other traffic data such as the movement profile of your own SIM card. In addition, many car manufacturers also log very precise location data in their own clouds.

Particularly important for the following target groups:

Sources and further links

  1. Volkswagen movement profiles of 800,000 electric cars revealed, golem.de, (de), 2024-12-26
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