Cars Gone Rogue: How Your Ride is Spilling Secrets and What Lawmakers Are Doing About It
Modern cars are more connected than your social media accounts. With sensors and GPS sharing data, privacy is a bumpy ride. Car makers are selling your driving habits, and opting out is harder than parallel parking. It’s time for comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation to hit the gas and protect drivers’ data.
Hot Take:
Who knew your car was the ultimate social butterfly, sharing all your secrets? Forget about checking under the hood; you should be checking under the dashboard for little gossiping gremlins and hidden “terms of endearment” with insurance companies. In the race of privacy versus convenience, it looks like privacy just got a flat tire.
Key Points:
- G.M. and other carmakers are sharing drivers’ data with insurance companies without clear consent.
- Senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate these data-sharing practices.
- California has been working on bills to protect abuse survivors from vehicle tracking.
- Digital license plates and automated license plate readers pose new privacy risks.
- Digital IDs are raising concerns about privacy and security.
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