Don't expect trackers to save your stolen car, experts say
Kia told the BBC UK law prevented its location tracking function being used to live track vehicles.
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"This car was incredibly easy to hack but incredibly difficult to track, it shouldn't be this easy to nick a car when they cost an order of magnitude more than a phone and have similar radio technology."
— Ian Fogg , Academic
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Kia told the BBC UK law prevented its location tracking function being used to live track vehicles.
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