The everyday movements of tens of millions of American cars are being monitored with a huge amount of personal information being collected – everything from how fast a person drives, how hard he brakes, to how much fuel his car uses and the entertainment he prefers.
Often without owners’ knowledge, carmakers have transformed the automobile to a sophisticated computer on wheels that offers even more access to our personal habits and behaviors than smartphones do.
“Any company that has tons of data about consumers and can control the interaction with them is going to have the capability and incentive to try to use that information to the company’s advantage — and possibly to the detriment of consumers,” Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington said.
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