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Auto Makers Are Selling Data On Your Driving Habits To Your Insurer Without Properly Informing You

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments
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from the I-can’t-drive-55 dept

Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was the worst tech industry the organization tracked. Mozilla found that not only does the industry hoover up a ton of data from your use of vehicles, it collects and monetizes most of the data on your phone. Often without transparency or adequate safeguards:

“All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label — making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.“

Auto Makers Are Selling Data On Your Driving Habits To Your Insurer Without Properly Informing You

Someone tell Rep. Mike Gallagher that China is buying our data! /s

Related:

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

2 thoughts on “Auto Makers Are Selling Data On Your Driving Habits To Your Insurer Without Properly Informing You”

  1. I haven’t had a credit card, cable TV subscription, or a mobile phone ever since the internet became mainstream. So that will be around 1997 or something? 😃 Zoomers will find my lifestyle completely alien, but I’m living proof that you can use the internet without being used by the internet. Everyone on the subway always have their heads bowed down looking at their phones, and when I bow my head down without a phone I notice that I completely blend in. 😄

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