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 03-18-2010, 10:34 Post: 169331
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  On Star talks to me

If it were mine I'd ask the dealer to disable it permanently and, if they can't or won't, buy something else without big brother built in.






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Frank, I googled a little on this and on a Tahoe board they mentioned that there is an On Star fuse that could be removed to disable it. You might check the fuse chart in the owners manual.






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The paranoid side of me says if it can talk to you it can listen to you.

Forgive me if I said this before but for a many years I wrote software for a vehicle tracking system in LA. It had a control center where operators at times were bored. There was no requirement for security and operators could peruse the database at will. Being LA there were a lot of celebrities in the database and operators would find them and track their vehicles to see where they were. A stalker and extortionist dream come true. In those days there wasn't the ability to talk or listen to the customer though. At one point we the owners discussed a relationship with GM to either provide tracking services or to be bought outright. That never happened but a few years later GM launched OnStar.

It wouldn't surprise me if bored OnStar operators (maybe now they are government employees) tracked and listened in to folks at times. Famous people, suspicious spouses and parents or just someone they know.






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