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‘Your weight, your speed, where you work’: How your connected car is tracking your every move
The 'is my car listening to me' conspiracy theory may not be fictional after all.
Bill Hanvey, the CEO of Auto Care Association – a US-based automotive aftermarket organisation – told Drive: “The car transmits about 20 gigabytes an hour of data back to the automaker while the vehicle is in use … that’s about 20,000 songs on Spotify when you think about it." “Under Australia’s Privacy Principles, a business can sell or trade information about its consumers that is anonymised and typically aggregated … consent is not required in this situation,” Melbourne University Law Professor Jeannie Paterson told Drive. In fact, most car manufacturers in Australia state the private data they collect is used to enhance services such as navigation, in-car features like Apple Carplay and Android Auto, and smartphone app functions like vehicle location and security.
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