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.

  • rebul
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    11 year ago

    We just need to learn where the data is stored, then figure out how to wipe it.

    • @zzzzzz@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      I don’t know if that’ll help. Most cars are internet-connected nowadays. They can just stream the data back home.

      • SaltySalamander
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        21 year ago

        Most cars are internet-connected nowadays

        So there’s a sim card somewhere. Find it, remove it.

        • rebul
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          41 year ago

          Yeah, there will be YouTube videos showing how to remove/dismantle.