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Cars are becoming data harvesting nightmares
Privacy is driving off a cliff: the digital push by vehicle manufacturers collects and sells an obscene amount of personal information.
America is not only one of the world’s leading consumers of automobiles, with nearly 92% of households owning a vehicle, but it also provides some of the weakest data privacy protections on the planet. Once again, the collection and sale of your data has turned you the customer into the product and your privacy is, well, let’s put it bluntly: non-existent the moment you buy a new, interconnected car. Although disguised as offering a way for users to object to data collection, this effectively voids many of the features which would have been major reasons for purchasing a Tesla in the first place.
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