Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning
Summary
BBC Future explores how modern connected cars collect vast amounts of data about drivers, including location, occupancy, vehicle performance, and even biometric data, with limited legal safeguards. It highlights studies such as Mozilla's privacy review showing privacy weaknesses across brands and notes regulatory actions around data sharing by automakers. The piece also recommends practical steps to limit data collection and sharing, such as opting out of telematics programs, adjusting in-car privacy settings, and requesting copies or deletion of collected data.