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All You Need to Know About the ‘Vehicle Privacy Report’

You might already know that your car knows a lot about you, be it the recent location you have checked in to, your phone contacts, and with today’s modern designs, even your emails and texts. Cars could record your travel updates, or the number of presses on the accelerator or your seatbelt settings along with your biometric information.

While this might seem to be an innovative approach for a much easier ride, there exist some murky paths the data could be sold to, such as the Dark Web or other illicit marketplaces.

Vehicle Privacy Report

Privacy4Cars, a US-based automotive firm recently introduced a tool, Vehicle Privacy Report, that tells a car’s owner how much data is piled up in their cars. This is similar to the features in Apple and Google’s ‘privacy labels for apps’ that indicate how Facebook may use a user’s camera or location.

According to Privacy4Cars founder, Andrea Amico, people have a meager understanding in regards to the data their cars are capable of collecting and that the “level of detail and transparency varies” depending on the manufacturer. On the basis of this, the aforementioned tool has ranked most of modern automobiles as “smartphones on wheels,” since they could hoard large amounts of data and wirelessly permeate the information to manufacturers.

The Vehicle Privacy Report assigns privacy labels that fall into two categories: what a manufacturer collects (such as identifiers, biometrics, location, data from synced phones

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