Among the flurry of mostly harmless and mildly important emails that follow a vehicle purchase, imagine getting one thanking you for signing up for a tracking service for your new truck. That’s an alarming one, especially if you had no knowledge of a service that tracks your location and vehicle use, which naturally raises a lot of questions.
That's exactly what happened to TikTok creator ToTouchAnEmu (@totouchanemu) whose enjoyment of his recent purchase of a Hyundai Santa Cruz was dampened by learning that there was apparently a tracking module installed and working in the vehicle already. With some informed hunting around under the dashboard panel, he revealed the module, stoking his ire and frustration.
“So I started thinking, how do they know all that information about my car if they don't have some sort of GPS tracker on it? And that's when I realized they probably already did,” he said in the clip that's been viewed more than 570,000 times. “A Google search confirmed… there is probably a tracker on that car right now.”
Hidden Module Tells All
After reading that many aftermarket tracking devices connect through a vehicle's onboard diagnostics system, ToTouchAnEmu climbed into the driver's seat and reached beneath the dashboard expecting to find something plugged directly into the OBD-II port. Instead, the connector was empty.
