How your car is SPYING on you: Experts reveal how automakers can track everything from your weight to the food you eat using in-built sensors

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How your car is SPYING on you: Experts reveal how automakers can track everything from your weight to the food you eat using in-built sensors

January 17th, 2018

Awake Goy

Experts have revealed the myriad ways that your car can spy on your personal habits.

Automakers track your vehicle’s location, how fast you drive, what entertainment you listen to, through internet-connected systems in modern cars.

Newer cars can even record a driver’s eye movements, the weight of people in the front seats, the weather on your street, and where you prefer to eat.

Companies use personal information collected from tens of millions of vehicles around the globe – and many keep tight-lipped about what they use the data for.

Some privacy experts say modern cars collect enough data about drivers that profiles as unique as fingerprints could be developed, which could then be sold to marketing firms.

Specifically, a vehicle’s location data poses the greatest risk to customers and their privacy, according to Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum.

Ms Dixon told the Washington Post: ‘Most people don’t realise how deeply ingrained their habits are and how where we park our car on a regular basis can tell someone many things about us.

‘There’s a load of anti-fraud companies and law enforcement agencies that would love to purchase this data, which can reveal our most intimate habits.’