Cars are getting an “F” in data privacy. A new study finds most major brands admit they may be selling your personal data.

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.

  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    27•1 year ago

    “Maybe we sell it, maybe we don’t. Why do you care it’s all out there anyhow….”

    Yeah. We don’t have privacy because assholes like these own politicians and it’s big business. Does mean I don’t want it.

  • @[email protected]
    18•1 year ago

    Spokesman Brian Weiss said that for safety reasons the group “has concerns” about letting customers completely opt out.

    God, what ass holes.

  • @foggy
    16•1 year ago

    My god the future is lame as fuck.

    • @MindSkipperBro12English
      2•1 year ago

      Atleast something cool was happening in, say, the 40’s to make it interesting.

  • Phoenixz
    10•1 year ago

    Change your cities to be human centric instead of car centric. Build bicycle lanes, Changr building zoning in suburbs so that small shops and restaurants are sprinkled thought. Invest heavily in public transportation

    Now we mostly no longer need cars. We’re healthier because we move more, we’re healthier because the air is cleaner, cities are safer and prettier, quieter, everything gets better.

  • Bri Guy English
    6•1 year ago

    Will there be FOSS alternatives for car software at some point lol

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
      0•1 year ago

      Conspiracy to manipulate securities that they aren’t listed in the article to begin with, I’m sure. Corporate media at work. It’s just billionaire stock holders and hedge funds back and back, and around again.

  • @BURN
    4•1 year ago

    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

  • rebul
    1•1 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 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
        2•1 year ago

        Most cars are internet-connected nowadays

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

        • rebul
          4•1 year ago

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

          • @cocoEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Doh !!! Ima gunna hold their beeer while they re doing this shit

    • @[email protected]
      6•1 year ago

      I would hope any company I’m a customer of would at least require a warrant to release my data to law enforcement. I know I’d be disappointed in most companies, but I feel if I’m paying them, they shouldn’t concede until they are at least be required to release my data.

      EDIT: a word