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Your car may be scraping and selling your data, and there isn’t much you can do to stop it

In Consumer Alerts
September 10, 2023

Car manufacturers are engaging in a “privacy nightmare” by scraping sensitive user data and potentially selling it to unknown actors, according to a new report on the widespread terrible practices in the industry.

Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included found 25 major car brands are “terrible at privacy and security” of user data, and their policies allow widespread scraping of personal data well beyond the scope of transport, such as medical history, genetic information, sex life and where you drive.

Read more on The New Daily.