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Connecting your smartphone to your car could make personal information vulnerable


CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many modern cars either synch or "clone" your smartphone to a screen in the vehicle which helps keep you safer on the road. But there is a consumer warning about your personal information being left behind.
You wouldn't unlock your phone and give it to a stranger, so the same rule should apply when you turn in a rental or trade in your vehicle, with your phone still connected.
A Glenview man's car display was synched to his phone. He turned his luxury car in at the end of the lease, leaving behind his phone's information: his home address, work address and other places he visited.

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if you are not a customer of at&t or verizon you will have more access to the mobile internet. the fcc is now requiring the two wireless giants to offer roaming rates to competitors at fair and reasonable prices. the hope is that these new rules will help the small regional carriers which some of you may run your service on, better compete with the biggest wireless phone companies. you can actually have a small regional carrier, but get coverage anywhere. >> cool. three weeks before the royal wedding in london. >> are you going? >> yes. we're going. >> nice. >> all of us, not all of us. you're staying here holding down the fort. prince william's best man is stranded at the north pole. zain verjee joins us from london. we talk about this before, about harry wanting to go on this arctic expedition with soldiers and everyone said, why would he chance it, so close to the royal

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