Tech Company Says Cars Collect 25 Gigabits of Data per Hour, Making Them Targets for Hacking

Tech Company Says Cars Collect 25 Gigabits of Data per Hour, Making Them Targets for Hacking
A seller shows the dashboard of the Tesla Model S car at the electric carmaker Tesla showroom of El Corte Ingles store in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 1, 2017. Patricia de Melo/AFP via Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
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Vehicles now collect a vast trove of personal data—from navigation history to text messages—that companies are increasingly looking to monetize, raising concerns about data privacy.

Cars today are like smartphones that have numerous apps connected to the internet which collect and share large amounts of data. Most owners do not know the amount of personal data that their vehicle collects and transmits, who collects it, for what purpose, and how it is used.

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