New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity.

Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels.

New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity. This invasive harvesting of information is collected via a web of sensors, microphones, cameras and the phones, apps, and connected services you use in your vehicle.

Car companies are brazenly collecting deeply personal information about people the moment they get into a car, often without explicit consent to do so. And that’s why the Mozilla community is now coming together to force car companies to respect our right to privacy. Add your name to ask car companies to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.

Find out more about our research on cars in the official launch blog post.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity

    Most of these policies are just putting in there as a sort of “catch-all” in case they collect it incidentally. I don’t see anything to indicate that they’re actively collecting this information.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Not a great take. “I’m probably not going to take all this money that’s sitting on the table. I could if I wanted to, I just don’t know if I really want to. Maybe. Will I?”

        • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Do all of your “the facts” start with “probably”, “possibly”, “maybe”, or “under the best circumstances when all people involved place morality over their own personal and collective best interests, despite explicitly stating that they can and will do otherwise”?

          • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            You are trying to take way more from what I said than exactly what I said. It’s not a puzzle. I don’t need you to extrapolate my intentions.

            • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              You’re right. You said “I don’t see”, which might actually be true. It’s much more likely that you are wearing a blindfold than it is for major corporations to not be gathering as much data as possible at every opportunity.

              • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                I did not say they are not collecting anything. Mozilla, on the other hand, puts this forth as a fact, as far as I can tell, without any evidence:

                global car brands…are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity.

                I don’t see why collecting data about your sexual activity or genetic information would benefit them.

                • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Direct advertising and predictive analytics, same for literally every other minute piece of data that’s being collected on you. What makes you think sex or genes are off the table?

                  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    10 months ago

                    I don’t see why collecting data about your sexual activity or genetic information would benefit them.

                    Nor do I see how they would collect that info

          • river@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I can tell this matters, but you’re being unnecessarily antagonistic about this to a total stranger.