Most major car manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information — though they are vague on the buyers, a new study finds, and half say they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
The proliferation of sensors in automobiles — from telematics to fully digitized control consoles — has made them prodigious data-collection hubs.
But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey. Security standards are also vague, a big concern given automakers’ track record of susceptibility to hacking.
I think the newest car is even consider is 2008. Once they started putting telemetry in our cars it was inevitable that they’ll collect every possible datapoint to sell.
I don’t get the need for any of the new features anyways. My 2004 escape does everything I need it to with absolutely no fancy electronics. The cruise control still moves the throttle pedal ffs. The stereo is a $75 dumb radio and everything else is analog.
My next daily driver will probably be whatever I can find that’s older and fun to drive. Some of the new cars look great, especially the EVs, but I’m not willing to let them have that much data about me