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- Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-are-tracking-and-sharing-your-data-with-third-parties/104440742 54 comments
- What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go? https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/what-data-does-my-car-collect-about-me-and-where-does-it-go/ 2 comments
- Woops, Google’s Street View cars collected email passwords, “sensitive data” http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/woops-googles-street-view-cars-collected-email-passwords-and-more-sensitive-data/ 5 comments
- Cars and Consumer Data: On Unlawful Collection and Use https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/05/cars-consumer-data-unlawful-collection-use 3 comments
- Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/car-repair-data-privacy.html 247 comments
- Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/06/06/texas-attorney-general-investigates-reports-of-car-manufacturers-selling-secretly-collected-driver-data/ 21 comments privacy
- Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-cars-privacy-nightmare-wheels.html 110 comments technology
- Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data https://theconversation.com/cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-heres-how-they-get-away-with-collecting-and-sharing-your-data-214386 23 comments privacy
- Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car 15 comments privacy
- [Motorsport Week]Amazing stat: In designing the new 2022 F1 car, the data collected in various simulations is equal to 10 million four-draw filing cabinets, if the data was written down https://twitter.com/MotorsportWeek/status/1415691443851698179?s=19 21 comments formula1
- What kind of data is my new car collecting about me? Nearly everything it can, apparently https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/technology/article-what-kind-of-data-is-my-new-car-collecting-about-me-nearly-everything/ 8 comments privacy
- Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight - Vehicles collect a lot of unusual data. But who owns it? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/car-repair-data-privacy.html 5 comments technology
- TIL that the sensors in an F1 car collects 400 gigabytes of data during one Grand Prix http://mag.ebmpapst.com/en/formula1/collecting-data-sensors-formula-one-fans_12008/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post_en&utm_campaign=f1 80 comments formula1
- Driverless Cars Are Giant Data Collection Devices, Say Privacy Experts http://motherboard.vice.com/read/driverless-cars-are-giant-data-collection-devices-say-privacy-experts 154 comments technology
- Driverless Cars Are Giant Data Collection Devices, Say Privacy Experts http://motherboard.vice.com/read/driverless-cars-are-giant-data-collection-devices-say-privacy-experts 191 comments politics
- Use of Automated License Plate Readers Expanding in Northern California, and Data is Shared With Feds -- "Without proper safeguards, license plate readers can be used to identify every car parked near a protest or event, or to collect data about your visits to a doctor’s office, local bar, and more" https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/use-automated-license-plate-readers-expanding-northern 11 comments technology
- Google 'mistakenly collects' private information from WiFi networks with Street View cars, and 'mistakenly' holds on to data for over a year after pledging to destroy it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166 77 comments worldnews
- Google admits that it collected data from unsecured WiFi via its Street View cars http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/technology/google-pays-fine-over-street-view-privacy-breach.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 5 comments duckduckgo
- Bill will be introduced next month in US to require warrants before the government collects geolocation data sent by your phone or car http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/bill-would-keep-big-brothers-mitts-off-your-gps-data/ 19 comments technology
- Google Inc said its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed http://www.reuters.com/article/idustre69l4kw20101022 27 comments technology
- Google admits wrongly collecting data from unencrypted wifi networks with its Street View cars http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8684110.stm 3 comments technology
- Google inadvertently collected data from open WiFi networks, apologizes, and grounds Street View cars until the software is fixed. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html 19 comments technology
- Chinese self-driving cars have quietly traveled 1.8 million miles on U.S. roads, collecting detailed data with cameras and lasers https://fortune.com/2024/07/08/chinese-self-driving-cars-us-roads-data-collection-surveillance-national-security-concerns-investigation/ 155 comments technology
- Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/connected-cars-illegal-data-collection-and-use-now-on-ftcs-radar/ 47 comments technology
- [Petition] Car Companies: Stop Your Huge Data Collection Programs https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/car-companies-stop-your-huge-data-collection-programs-en/ 9 comments privacy
- How Car Manufacturers Collect and Misuse Your Personal Data (2023) - An Eye-Opening Documentary on Privacy (CC) [00:14:35] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qV6wtTfjVw 12 comments documentaries
- Tesla cars are being barred from China’s World University Games ahead of a Xi visit amid worries that their cameras might collect sensitive data https://fortune.com/2023/07/26/tesla-cars-barred-china-world-university-games-xi-visit-worries-cameras-collect-sensitive-data/ 266 comments technology
- Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive: After years of failed promises on transit, Silicon Valley is loading cars with new technologies to get a cut of the profits—and to collect data on us. https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive 3 comments technology
- A sneaky Formula E team got caught secretly collecting tire data from the other cars with an RFID scanner https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772694/a-sneaky-formula-e-team-got-caught-secretly-collecting-tire-data-from-the-other-cars-with-an-rfid-sc 206 comments formula1
- Somebody's Watching You: Self-driving cars will represent a new mode for surveillance. Through a self-driving car’s GPS, navigational tools, and other data collection mechanisms, companies will be able to gain access to passengers’ habits, routines, movements, and preferences. https://www.dartmouth.edu/press-releases/surveillance_of_self_driving_cars_060719.html 9 comments technology
- Somebody's Watching You: Self-driving cars will represent a new mode for surveillance. Through a self-driving car’s GPS, navigational tools, and other data collection mechanisms, companies will be able to gain access to passengers’ habits, routines, movements, and preferences. https://www.dartmouth.edu/press-releases/surveillance_of_self_driving_cars_060719.html 3 comments privacy
- I'm collecting range finder data with my Raspberry Pi web server controlled car... how do I manage and display the data? http://niltoid.com/blog/raspberry-pi-arduino-tornado/ 3 comments raspberry_pi
- Google Has Launched a For-Profit Privacy Invasion Into Our Electronic Lives. Google cars outfitted with roof cameras were not just taking pictures; they were collecting data from computers, including passwords, e-mails and other personal information. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/4-ways-google-raking-it-massive-profit-privacy-invasion 9 comments worldnews
- Police start using ‘black boxes’ in car crash investigations:As many as 96 percent of the cars produced in 2013 include event data recorders, yet the existence of these small “black box” surveillance devices are rarely known among the drivers whose data is being collected with every turn. http://rt.com/usa/car-recording-edr-device-429/ 817 comments technology
- This bill would mandate GPS in every car to track mileage, and use that data to collect mileage fees. What could go wrong with that? http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/ore-rep-floats-mileage-fee-to-replace-gas-tax-1.236118 23 comments politics
- Washington Post Hacked into a Chevy Volt to Show How Much Cars Are Spying on Their Owners - Your car is collecting and transmitting a lot more data than you think, as this investigation graphically depicts https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30260730/chevy-volt-hacked-data-collection 5 comments privacy
- GM Collected Radio-Listening Data on 90,000 Cars - GM said at an advertising conference recently that they monitored the radio station choices of drivers and passengers in 90,000 cars for months late last year. All in the name of marketing insights https://jalopnik.com/gm-collected-radio-listening-data-on-90-000-cars-1829345634 10 comments privacy
- Rogue Street View engineer is identified - Milner has been identified as the Google employee who inserted a piece of code in the Google Street View car's software, which enabled the company to collect WiFi data from individual homes throughout the country. http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-brief/63092-rogue-street-view-engineer-is-identified 9 comments technology
- Big data shows how ‘selfless’ driving could ease traffic congestion. New study suggests that the personal benefits we get from having a car could be improved by collective thinking. Strategic route changes by a small number of motorists could reduce the time lost to congestion by as much as 30%. http://theconversation.com/big-data-shows-how-selfless-driving-could-ease-traffic-congestion-56166 274 comments science
- Early next week, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., will introduce a bill stipulating that car owners control the data collected on the device called the event data recorder. http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/next-privacy-battle-may-be-waged-inside-your-car-469785 22 comments politics