Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

@[email protected] · 5 months ago

Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

@credo · 5 months ago

Is the argument they should have gotten a better deal?

@[email protected] · edit-2 5 months ago

More that peoples’ movement data isn’t worth much, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.

As Sen. Wyden says:

This is timely in light of JD Vance’s comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.