Modern automotive technology enables some very special and convenient features. They’re essentially four-wheeled smartphone extensions. As fantastic as it is to start a vehicle with a phone app or to have it self-park, there is a downside.
The Mozilla Foundation claimed in its latest report that cars are “the official worst category of products for privacy” it has ever analysed.
The global nonprofit discovered that 84% of the reviewed automakers shared user data with third parties, giving users little (if any) control over their personal information.
None of the 25 automakers examined for the report satisfied the nonprofit organisation’s minimal privacy standards, including Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW, and Tesla, which was also identified to be accumulating more personal information from customers than necessary.
Data collected spans from personal information, su
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