Is Your Smart Car Spying on You
by hubie from SoylentNews on (#6AX1D)
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Yes. Your new car is probably spying on you.
As the world wakes up to exactly what a Tesla's onboard cameras can capture and beam back to their makers, a wider fear has arisen: is your car spying on you?
Systems such as telematics black boxes that record a vehicle's location and how it is driven are commonplace today. Complaints about how that data is fed back to Big Brother seem old-fashioned.
From Tesla's Model Y to the humble Mini, around two million of these data-gathering cars have been registered in the UK over the past five years.
The question is, when will it be impossible to buy a car that can't spy on you.
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