Josh Taylor reports:
A Choice analysis of carmaker privacy policies has found some of the biggest car sellers in Australia collect and share a range of driver data, including in some cases video and biometric data, with third parties.
The consumer group analysed the privacy policies of Toyota, Ford, MG, Mazda, Kia, Hyundai, Tesla, Subaru, Isuzu and Mitsubishi to determine the extent that modern vehicles are collecting data on their customers, as vehicles become more and more digital.
Kia, Hyundai and Tesla were found to be the “worst” when it came to protecting the privacy of their customers, Choice’s Rafi Alam said.
Read more at The Guardian.
h/t, Joe Cadillic