Researchers Drove a Chinese EV Into an Underground Mine. It Kept Calling China Anyway.
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Chinese EV data privacy concerns grow as Project Lion Cage finds 90% of a NIO ES8's traffic routed to servers in China.

Researchers drove a NIO ES8 electric SUV deep into a Norwegian underground mine specifically to sever its external connections. The car kept attempting to reach servers, most of them located in China. These findings echo broader concerns about hidden data collection, similar to how a surveillance app was built to covertly target users without their knowledge.

That finding sits at the center of Project Lion Cage, a multi-year study initiated in 2022 by Tor Indstøy, a risk management and threat intelligence executive at Telenor Group. Indstøy purchased the NIO ES8 as a dedicated research platform.

The project arrives as Chinese EV brands expand across European markets with assurances about local data processing. Observed network behavior appears to contradict those assurances.

  • Ariselas@piefed.caEnglish
    2613·
    6 hours ago

    Oh NO! China might harvest the kind of data that Google, Meta, Tesla, and other US companies have had a monopoly on stealing.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      23·
      5 hours ago

      Whatabout the US? Uigher death camps? Whatabout ICE? Single-party rule? Whatabout neither top 2 party in the US being socialist?

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      811·
      6 hours ago

      The thing is, you agreed that google and meta could have that data. Nobody signed any terms for the bus…

        • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
          3·
          4 hours ago

          I’m thinking to mod my garage to be a faraday cage, that is, after I build my garage. Maybe it should be portable, too.

      • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        5 hours ago

        “You agreed that Google and meta…”

        You sure about that? Did you read every term and condition? Did you agree that they would keep a complete record of your exact location? Did you agree that they will record your voice using the Bluetooth hack? Did you agree that Facebook should be able to buy your medical data off the data market and combine it with your profile?

        • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
          5·
          4 hours ago

          Gee, no, I didn’t agree. It’s a major part of why we are talking on this platform, and not Meta nor Alphabet’s platforms.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        I remember reading that meta tracks you even if you don’t have a Facebook account. It collects information on you from any photos your friends add with you in it or by taking your contact information from your friends phone or the wide net of meta trackers that are spread around the internet. Meta collects that information to create a shadow profile of you without you even knowing.

        So meta does the exact same thing as the bus.