#carprivacy — Public Fediverse posts

🚗 Your car might know where you sleep. Literally.

Modern vehicles collect your driving habits, phone data—even pinpoint your home based on where you park.
📌 Privacy settings do exist, but they’re buried deep in menus.
📌 No federal law requires auto brands to protect your data.
📌 The FTC is watching, but until then—you should be too.

#CarPrivacy #SurveillanceTech #DigitalRights #AutoData

Your car knows more about you than your best friend.

Modern vehicles log your location, driving habits, voice commands, and even sync your contacts. Some send it all back to manufacturers—or worse, to third parties.

📌 Unpair your phone when renting or selling.
📌 Review your car’s data settings.
📌 Privacy isn’t just for phones.

#CarPrivacy #DataSecurity #TechPrivacy #CyberAware

"Finally, a day after downloading the app, I was able to shut off the data sharing in my car (confusingly, I had to do so in the car and not on the app, but only once I downloaded the app). It only took me a month."

#CarPrivacy #privacy

https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

The free tool from Privacy4Cars provides some insight on whether your vehicle is collecting and sharing location and other types of data.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7enex/tool-shows-if-car-selling-data-privacy4cars-vehicle-privacy-report
#carprivacy #CYBER #privacy #cars #dataselling #locationdata #privacy4cars #Mazda