Your shadow follows you every single place, except when you shake it off in the quiet of the blackest of nights. But your car you never expected to be recording everything you do. And it has been selling you out for years!
Your automobile will drop the dime on you in a heartbeat. It’ll give all your data to the insurance company, the police, any random slimy hacker. It is a stool pigeon to the nth degree.
Getting Political
Your car’s data is landing in the inboxes of anyone who asks. Suppose you got helpful and gave a young woman in Texas a ride to her medical appointment at Planned Parenthood. How did the anti-abortion activists know how to target you and the state of Texas issue a warrant for your arrest? Your car told them, in a roundabout way.
A data broker by the name of Near Intelligence sells car data. People who want to target you, stalk you, or just someone like you are able to do just that. They can discover where you worship, who your friends are, if you use the traditional California stop when you drive. It is all logged and up for sale.
How To Stop Your Car from Squealing
In California you have the right to stop your car from telling on you by using the California Privacy Act of 2018. The problem is, you will need to know which broker sold your information and then opt out of their use of your data. That can take some serious investigating on your part to discover all the brokers who are doing this.
So, watch for class action lawsuits targeting the auto manufacturers who sell their customer’s driving data and join the suit when you get the notice in the mail or in your email inbox. It’ll help you discover broker names.
Drive safely.
Be aware people are watching you.
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