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How to escape Honda's privacy hell


I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....

EFF’s handy guide sent me to Honda’s online privacy request page, where I learned we didn’t live in one of the five states where we could exercise our consumer rights to view or delete the data our car tracked. “Toward that end, the company’s public websites prominently feature a link to our privacy practices, which include provisions allowing consumers to opt out of the collection of certain types of information.” She found out that she and her husband’s Chevy Bolt had been sending detailed information about their driving habits — speeding, accelerating, stopping too fast — to data brokers and then on to insurance companies.

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