“The gist is: they can collect super intimate information about you – from your medical information, your genetic information, to your ‘sex life’ (seriously), to how fast you drive, where you drive, and what songs you play in your car — in huge quantities,” the report says. “They then use it to invent more data about you through ‘inferences’ about things like your intelligence, abilities, and interests.”
There are lots of scary and surprising findings in the report, like which companies will give away your data to law enforcement for even “informal” requests, and which mention they collect information about “sexual activity” and “genetic characteristics.” The summary isn’t particularly long, so it’s definitely worth a read. At the end, they have a petition you can sign that calls on car makers to respect to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.
That’s a novel concept. Maybe if automakers are so concerned about independent service centers getting access to data, they should stop collecting so much data about drivers in the first place?