DRIVERS have been warned that cars are “software on wheels” and should be cautious when selling their motors.
According to experts, modern cars have inbuilt computer systems that collect personal information like location history, contacts and messages.
The data is retained, even once the phone has been disconnected from the car.
It has been recommended that personal data is deleted from the car’s settings before motorists sell their vehicles.
According to News 12, carmakers can monitor driving habits which could be shared with third parties – potentially risking insurance rates.
Last month a Tesla Cybertruck was blown up outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Immediately after the deadly explosion, investigators were able to link the EV to a soldier who rented it in Denver and took it to Las Vegas.
Law enforcement in Las Vegas were even able to determine that the man stopped at eight Tesla charging stations along the way from Colorado to Nevada.
By doing this, officers were able to track the car’s movements between the charging stations.
However, the vehicle itself can do that too along with countless others – be it electric or gas-powered.
In the report, Steve Beaty, Interim Dean of the College of Aerospace, Computing, Engineering and Design at MSU Denver, said: “Any car made in the last decade or so has a whole bunch of electronics, measurements, these sorts of things.
“They also phone home. They phone home to their manufacturer.”
Beaty points to the user agreements and privacy policies that many consumers quickly agree to without reading when purchasing or renting a vehicle.
These include information your car may be learning about you and sharing with the manufacturer, which they may even sell.
Tesla’s privacy policy, for example, includes an opt-out paragraph at the end of a section describing what data it can collect.
The “Opting out of vehicle data” section ends with “This may result in your vehicle suffering from reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.”
Beaty added: “I think we need to recognize the fact that our cars are essentially computers on wheels that track us and also take us to where we want to go, but that’s almost secondary.”
Kia, who along with Tesla are a hugely popular automaker with best-selling models all over the world, have a similar privacy policy which describes the “sensitive personal information” they can collect.
This ranges from a driver’s license to racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, immigration status, and sex life or sexual orientation information.
Beaty said: “They have, essentially, cell phone connections.
“We’ve all seen the little shark tail on the back of our cars. We think it helps us to receive information. That’s not what it’s there for. It’s there to send information.”
What’s more, even passengers are at risk of giving up personal information – simply by getting inside someone else’s car with their phone.
Beaty said: “If you climb into somebody else’s vehicle and connect to their car some way or another [like] Bluetooth, then you are implicitly consenting to all of the things that they have consented to.
“If you look at all of the things that we’re giving up in our cars, in our applications, and it’s an extraordinary amount of information.”
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