Car companies are stealing your data, you won't be happy when you hear this. Car companies have admitted they are selling your private data. If you actually read the fine print on any of these Terms of Service contracts for the connected car apps, it’s horrifying. The quantity of data that is being collecting, and what they can do with it, would keep anyone from signing up for that "service" if they actually read it. Companies want to be able to track your location, direction of travel, and speed without restriction and for free? Plus the in-car audio recording they can do (as we mentioned recently in the Kill Switch Infrastructure Bill - • New Law Mandates 'Kill Switches' in A... ).
You don’t sign these agreements at the dealership. No one will hand you paperwork and confirm you understand what you’re agreeing to before you click confirm. You buy your car, go to use one of the integrated services like the built-in apps, radio, maps, wifi, autonomous driving features, phone connectivity, etc. a screen pops up and asks you if you agree to their terms of service or you can’t use that service. But nobody reads these super long agreements and many times you would need an attorney to understand them. We just want to use the vehicle and all of the great features you paid for. The problem is that you agree to hundreds or possibly thousands of pages of legalese saying you have no privacy in your car, and the car company and their service partners own all your data, and sell it. They make huge amounts of money doing this.
You can opt out! If you can figure out how. Some services have a tight time limit before they automatically activate after a short period of time - like a week. Again has anyone ever done that. It’s buried deep in the service agreement that is rarely if ever read by the end user.
Volvo outlined on its quarterly earnings call last month that its main competitive advantage going forward will be its superior ability to monitor the activities of the drivers. They are installing more powerful computers, more powerful cameras, microphones, and other sensors to detect your activities in greater detail, and they view that as their number one profit center going forward.
What worries me is assuming cars and companies have stopped monitoring us simply because we have asked them to by opting out. Really, how would we ever know? Just because you just declined a service, doesn’t mean they stopped collecting data. Car manufacturers and the service companies can still monitor all your activity.
To their credit, they tell you this in the fine print...that nobody reads.
As far as what the average consumer thinks; the first major story that breaks showing how a private individual was arrested, charged, convicted, and sent to prison entirely based on evidence from vehicle monitoring will wake people up. Until then, only the informed will see this coming.
I would like most people be concerned about their freedom, but most people need to see the reality before they wake up and speak out. Where are you on this? Let us know and share this with others. Knowledge is power!
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