Stolen & Recovered 392

[SunsetHill]

Not sure if this is that better than Stellantis' data piracy (your data is their data):

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Their "Privacy" Policy is not only for the website, but also for the products and is crossed referenced in the above Data Ownership one.
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Selling of 24x7 data tracking is a gold pot for any company and a good lawyer can write a policy vague enough to obfuscate that intent. Nothing that is listed in their policies is explicitly stoping them to do that.

My quasi-strict reading of that seems to tell me that they'll use the data only to provide the services to the customer, and otherwise only share it with anyone I allow to use my account. Both ideas sound nice enough, I'd say.

I took a trip today after giving my brother a live link. Got back with him just now. He was able to see my car positioned on a map (his choice of maps were dark, light, satellite, or mono) but only at the time-point interval that I had selected, in my case every 5 seconds. There was no line drawn to show him the path I traveled behind my moving icon. Every 5 seconds, the icon would just reappear at the new location, no slow advance on the street between time-points. Just poof, the new location. Five seconds later, poof, the new location. As he was not familiar with my city streets, he zoomed out the map to see where I was, but upon the next 5-second increment, it zoomed him back in against his will to show him the new location. I'm thinking if I had set the interval to a longer time, such as 1 minute, he would have had 1 minute to explore the zoomed-out map before it would have snapped him back into a close-up.

 

[Infidel09]

My 392 was stolen from my driveway about 6 weeks ago. First- its finally back in my driveway after being recovered and repairs made. But I wanted to share some lessons learned.
Many of you have Sirius on your Jeep but not all of them are GPS enabled nor are people using the Jeep app. DO IT! I lost my key (in my yard probably buried under a tree) a few weeks before this happened. I signed up for the Jeep (formerly Uconnect) app. to be able to start my Jeep in case I lost key #2 while hoping Key #1 would miraculously show up. My dealer had also installed LoJack so I did NOT add the slightly-more expensive GPS tracking subscription at the time. Imagine my panic when I called LoJack after the theft and they informed me that my device was never activated. The dealer had failed to include my cell or email in the contract so I never got the registration prompt from LoJack. I had to call the dealer who immediately corrected this and LoJack said they would attempt to restart the device. Meanwhile I also called Sirius who was able to change my subscription over the phone and also attempt to engage GPS. During these calls I'd been in contact with the police. I was literally on the phone with Sirius while the local officer patiently waited for me to get this completed.
About 36 hours later I got a call from San Diego PD. They'd located my empty Jeep- thanks to a GPS ping from the above companies- one exit from Mexican border. It was out of gas. This really made me laugh at the idea that my 11 MPG might've prevented my 392 from disappearing into Mexico. The cops said it was more likely they were waiting for a secondary driver. They frequently do this to use someone less suspicious/without a record to get across the border. Both officers told me how incredibly lucky it was that I managed to get the GPS turned on in the nick of time. Which is why I wanted to post this. If you don't have your Jeep GPS enabled do it! While you can enable it afterwards like I did there is no guarantee and it takes time. And an Air Tag isn't a bad idea either. This won't come as a shock but 392s and Rubicons are the most stolen. I'd remove my 392 badge but since my plates say "V8" it won't do much good.
The damages were a broken window, glass everywhere and the various engine computer/security modules & wiring the thieves connected to in order to start the Jeep. This thief had a laptop- not a screwdriver. (or my missing key.) I've had it back from the dealer a few days and for the moment mechanically it seems ok. My insurance covered everything but it was a $7K bill.
Hopefully this can help someone prevent a theft to their Jeep or cars in general.

Ive had a few cars stolen from me and it is such an empty feeling....Im glad you got it back - these 392's are keepers. I would have been completely miserable until it was recovered or replaced. Question I have a kill switch on mine - would that have prevented your jeep from being stolen?