Privacy versus Car Companies

I don't usually like Vice, but this story isn't bad. Every New Car Is a 'Privacy Nightmare,' Mozilla Researchers Conclude

All new cars track way too much of your personal life, but Nissan's "user agreement" is described as dystopian.

Eighty-four percent of the brands studied share or sell personal data and “inferences” about you based on the data they collect, such as how intelligent you are, your abilities, and your interests. More than half of the companies will share your information with government or law enforcement based on a simple request, not requiring a subpoena. The vast majority of car companies, 92 percent, give drivers “little or no control over their personal data,” Mozilla also found, with the two exceptions being European-based brands Renault and Dacia, which have to comply with the GDPR privacy law.

This is bad enough, but Nissan is in a class by itself.

But Mozilla Foundation holds special antipathy for Nissan, whose privacy policy it calls “probably the most mind boggling creepy, scary, sad, messed up privacy policy we have ever read” because “They come right out and say they can collect and share your sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic information and other sensitive personal information for targeted marketing purposes.” Nissan also discloses that it will share and sell "Inferences drawn from any Personal Data collected to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes" to others for targeted marketing purposes.”

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