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osewalrusToday's Washington Post has this front page article about how your car collects lots and lots of information about your driving habits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/01/15/big-brother-on-wheels-why-your-car-company-may-know-more-about-you-than-your-spouse/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_cartracking-830pm-2%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c595eec1d5c0
What is annoying is not merely the fact of collecting the data (and your choice is to find a sufficiently old car or not drive), but that they collect the data simply because they can, and it might be valuable. If you read the article, or read the report Senator Ed Markey published in February 2015, you will see that the auto companies don't really have anything they do with the information.
So what's the harm? This is exactly the situation that presents a bug, fat yummy target for data breaches. No liability and little cost=why not? The potential harm is entirely externalized.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/01/15/big-brother-on-wheels-why-your-car-company-may-know-more-about-you-than-your-spouse/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_cartracking-830pm-2%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c595eec1d5c0
What is annoying is not merely the fact of collecting the data (and your choice is to find a sufficiently old car or not drive), but that they collect the data simply because they can, and it might be valuable. If you read the article, or read the report Senator Ed Markey published in February 2015, you will see that the auto companies don't really have anything they do with the information.
So what's the harm? This is exactly the situation that presents a bug, fat yummy target for data breaches. No liability and little cost=why not? The potential harm is entirely externalized.
