Big Automakers Are Failing to Protect Customer Privacy: Report

Mozilla Foundation finds that much of the personal data collected from consumers by carmakers were regularly being sold or shared to third parties.

A part of full-width digital dashboard, comprised of five integrated high-resolution color screens, inside a Honda E electric car at Honda R&D Co.'s Tochigi Proving Ground in Haga town, Tochigi prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 24, 2020. Maki Shiraki/Reuters

Major automakers are failing to protect customer privacy while collecting data from drivers, according to a recent study.

The Mozilla Foundation’s latest “Privacy Not Included” study published on Sept. 6, found that much of the personal data collected from consumers by carmakers were regularly being sold or shared to third parties.